This is splorp.

ISSN 1496-3221

January 14, 2002

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Ah, it’s the invigorating smell of one’s expanding repertoire. With my heart pumping vigorously in my chest, and the excitement building until I could barely stand it, I lunged at the box of software. Within seconds, the package was open, it’s contents splayed haphazardly across the entire surface my desk. It’s once taut shrink-wrapped membrane laying discarded on the floor. What was the point of this frantic engagement? I’m learning how to use Adobe InDesign this afternoon. Wait a minute, let me rephrase that. I’m unlearning how to use PageMaker this afternoon. And Illustrator, and QuarkXPress, and ClarisWorks, and every other application I’ve ever used to somehow cobble together a complex multi-page document. It’s none too subtle a difference.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

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