Comments on: All I want for Christmas

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:28:14 +0000

At the risk of sidetracking Dave’s entertainingly diverting article on Serious IT Stuff down a blind alley of desktop application gripes, but I would love to be able to mix and match MS Office for Mac apps with iWork stuff.

Excel is the bee’s knees, Word is excellent (as long as it’s not choking on tables); Entourage is the awful red-haired stepchild of Outlook and should be taken behind the barn and shot; PowerPoint is entirely mediocre, verging on dire.

Pages, on the other hand, is IMHO pretty risible, Numbers is hugely more so (although is nice for creating pretty charts, a chore in Excel). Keynote is great, especially for giving presentations that “I wasn’t made in ***** PowerPoint” stylishness.

Erm. So come to think of it, I want Office Mac but with Keynote, and hope someone writes a decent Exchange-compatible mail app for Mac.

Tried using Mail.app with old skool SMTP server with iCal/CalDev set up for shared calendar. Would love to know if anyone has got this one right…

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:00:56 +0000

Ditto on Apple Mail and Numbers! Numbers cant even display text vertically in columns… Fortunately I won a version of Office for Mac. Now I use excel instead of numbers, but still think pages tops word!

By: DaveG

DaveG — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:54:45 +0000

@David

Well Mr Bullard sir, it was after she threatened to run off with one of the stablehands if I didn’t divorce myself from the MacBookPro that I retorted that I was intending to invite Elbe van der Merwe to join me in the Seychelles. She then threatened to do something unspeakable to me with a pitching wedge. Fearful for my short game without a wedge, I relented.

And that, sadly is where any analogy between my good self and the prowess & supposed stamina of Mr Woods ends.

By: David Bullard

David Bullard — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:58:37 +0000

Why did you ever mention the swimwear model to your wife? Tiger Woods never did.

By: DaveG

DaveG — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:53:11 +0000

ok… that should have been http://www.timmyhenny.com
my bad.

By: DaveG

DaveG — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:51:52 +0000

@justin
Xmas wishlist easier than predictions for the next year, but I may even have a stab at that again. Hearing from one of the project managers what kind of BW is coming out of the stadia, I think you well be right on the money w.r.t. Telkom delaying the 8Mbps offering.
And I could shoot myself for not visiting my mate who was running North Island before they left there for Greece. bah!

@Joe
Thanks man, but I reckon Timmy Henny (http://www.timmyhenny.co.za/) could make a pig look like a prince!
If you ever need decent corporate photos, he’s value for money.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:30:17 +0000

Nice photo.

By: justinspratt

justinspratt — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:12:30 +0000

nice post Dave. I cannot agree more. telkom is testing 8Mbps (for over a year now) but it is likely to get shelved until after 2010 due to backbone congestion.

please can I come visit in seychelles when you get your office there?