Monthly Archives: March 2003

General Chaos

Serb Leader Is Assassinated. Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was a reformer who helped overthrow and send Slobodan Milosevic to face a war crimes trial. By Daniel Simpson. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Djindjic was a man who walked the line–pushing for reforms, but distancing himself from support from Washington. He showed there was a way for Serbia to move forward walking on its own feet instead of being dragged on its heels. Now, it looks like the way he showed was an illusion.

There's a photo on Yahoo of Djindjic with his daughter, taken in 1999, that tells the story's human side better than words can express here.

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On the bright side, I’m saving paper.

Hmmm, an interesting wrinkle with OpenOffice–I can't print to my inkjet. The print jobs go into a bit bucket somewhere. I can, however, print to an EPS file or to a PDF, which I can then print from another software package if I'm so inclined. Uh….not good, guys.

UPDATE: Okay, now I can print. An interesting little preferences setting in the “StartOpenOffice” application (Support Direct to Postscript Printing) was set on by default, which meant a bunch of Postscript was getting streamed to…lord only knows. A little un-check of the box, and a restart of OpenOffice, and voila…

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