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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-17-26

I have some pressing work-work to attend to today, but I will not let that stop me from publishing my daily Pook-Emu Bee links last week. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. Links from around the web 1. Pakistan air strike kills at least 100 at Kabul drug rehab centre (Yama Bariz and Simon Fraser for BBC. March 17, 2026.) I see that BBC is trying to turn Pakistan into the "Israel" of the Muslim world but I don't think the usual pro-Hamas […]

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-03-17-26/

[Note] Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-17-26

Links of the day for March 17, 2026, with links on topics including, but not limited to, war in Afghanistan, Brooklyn bakeries, document formats, and Nintendo.

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Peter N. M. Hansteen Dec 19

An article about how "immortal" MS Word is and other MSFT praise turned up in my feed, so I found the need to reprise (and liberate) my 2013 rant "Compatibility Is Hard: CHARTEST.DOC Is From 1989, Was Not Readable By 2003" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/compatibility_is_hard.html #msword #winword #compatibility #documentformats #informationprotection which links to other (probably better) pieces by myself and @cstross

Compatibility Is Hard: CHARTEST.DOC Is From 1989, Was Not Readable By 2003

Nicholas A. Ferrell Oct 14

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/

I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.

#apple #documentFormats #learning2025_ #libreoffice

Pages Does Not Open .odt Files

I learned while working on an article project with Victor V. Gurbo. I sent him an .odt file from LibreOffice. He could not open it in Apple’s Pages.

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Peter N. M. Hansteen Aug 16, 2025

History seems to (almost) repeat itself, so reprising my *2008* piece "Does anybody here remember Artie Eff?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/does_anybody_here_remember_artie_eff_2008.html #ooxml #xml #documentfoundation #documentformats #libreoffice #opensource #libresoftware #freesoftware #microsoft #office @tdforg

Does anybody here remember Artie Eff?

BasicsComp Mar 16, 2023

Get ready to ace your file types knowledge with Quiz 15! Take the quiz now and show off your skills.

https://basicscomp.com/quiz-15-an-introduction-to-common-file-types

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Quiz 15 - An Introduction to Common File Types

Welcome to Quiz 15 - An Introduction to Common File Types. This quiz is based on the article "An Introduction to Common File Types", which provides an overview

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