Wednesday's Putterings (Well, actually, this is in reference to Tuesday.)

[moderately_mad]

Topics contained herein:
Sleepy thunder, sandy salamanders, brave & stoic children and an increasingly insistant yen for some real writing time.

Comments

[woggie]

I had less of an investment in MS Office than I suspect you did, so OpenOffice has been much easier on me. It's more stable and more dependable so far. Then again, my demands are also pretty simplistic. I'm not trying to do anything terribly complicated. I just want a pretty interface I can type words into. This process has been made a little easier by the introduction of the external usb keyboard I've plugged into the laptop.

Hail damage? Structured plot formula? Please, say on... :)

I feel like a technical neophyte with Linux on the desktop machine. I've recently come to understand how to install some kinds of software packages (still no decent 3D games, though), but I'm not yet sure how to uninstall anything as yet.

I've done a little work with BASIC and C++, and I might be able to guess my way through Python at this point. BASIC and C++ are programming languages. With them I could turn out a program that would run the tally, although it's been a while with either of them, so it might take some time and look really ugly afterward.

Python is a script language I've heard has a structure similar to C++, so I might be able to cope with it. Python has the added bonus (like C++) of being platform independent, so I could make a script that'd run on any machine, which might be extra good in this case.

I was just hoping there was some sort of code I could adapt instead of having to create wholecloth, but if I gotta then I suppose I gotta. Who knows, it might even be a good exercise for me.