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• cabsav090 commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
  Hello, but it's lonely over here waving my 'I love Word' flag. Because I do like Word, and I think it's a great program to use for writing novels. (Don't love Big Brother Microsoft, but that's a whole other story.)...
• Nojay commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
  "Someplace upthread, I've raised the point that they've admitted that Windoze8 is designed for touch screens, to the exclusion of all else." In that case why have I been using Windows 8 with a GUI desktop and no touch input devices for the last two years? Again, like the Lords of the Copybook Headings, I say that touch is another interface for Windows 8, not an exclusive means of interacting with the system. Heck, it's even got a command window yep, Textronix 4014 emulation mode with the background set to dark green and text as white Lucida for old-school types...
• Peter commented on Making history personal
  The oldest place I've slept in would be a house we rented for about nine years in Devon. One end was first built in 1610 but, to be fair the end we slept in was a lot newer. Probably about 1950! But I must have dozed off in the lounge (the original part) at some time. Oldest place I've been in? I would guess either West Kennet Long Barrow or Wayland Smiths Cave but not sure which is eldest. Can't be much in it, just a few centuries either way!...
• jsandercock commented on Making history personal
  Slept in - probably a Cornish inn in Polperro built ca. 1400. Been inside Stonehenge - back in the 1970s when you could do that. Also a church on a hill near Verona with pre-Christian origins. Also the arena there. Here in NY we have several 17th century houses on the East End of Long Island. Oldest is said to be from 1649....
• kali.ratatosk commented on Making history personal
  When I lived in the UK as a child, our house was built in the 1850s. We went to church in a building that was allegedly built in the 1200s....