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I'm very sorry I won't be able to go to barcamp this weekend - it really looks like it's going to be a lot of fun!

http://barcamp.org/BarCampMelbourne

Good news for those of you exchanging documents with users of MS Office 2003:

"The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is now available."

Download it for free from http://www.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/index.xml

The day before yesterday I rceived a call from a client who wanted to know how to install additional dictionaries into OpenOffice.org (on Windows).

I had no idea, so I went exploring the menus and found an Install New Dictionary option hiding under the File>Wizard menu, but it wasn't quite that straightforward after all...