The border security officer said he didn't care if I was not getting paid, work is work (don't even bother trying to explain to him what an open source community is) and he was inclined to red flag my passport and take away my TN (work) visa. It was a terrifying experience...

via eaves.ca

For ages, Office 2008 for Mac has aggravated me. It takes 40 seconds for Excel to start on my 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM.

Following this tip, I reduced that to about 4-6 seconds.

Verbose:

1. Launch Word
2. Go to Word > Preferences
3. Click on “General”
4. Un-check “WYSIWYG font and style menus”
5. Un-check “Show Project Gallery At Startup”
6. Quit Word
7. Re-open Word