Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

So it's going to be Office 2007.

Not surprising, really, as that's the name that had been rumoured since the very start of things...

However, it is interesting to note the demise of FrontPage, reborn as SharePoint Designer. With Microsoft building its new Office Live platform on top of SharePoint, it's going to be an important tool for helping build customised solutions for both inside and outside the business. The web designer baton is going to be passed to Expression Web Designer (previously codenamed Quartz), which looks to be much more of a competitor for Dreamweaver...

It's actually a little sad seeing FrontPage go. Back when it was a interesting looking personal web page design tool from a small company called Vermeer we were using it to design and manage pages at UK Online. It was the best thing around at the time (it was that or Adobe's Pagemill) if you didn't have the time to hand code every line of HTML...

But it's time to move on. I've been using Dreamweaver for years now, among many other design tools...

The US Army has just decommissioned its last MASH...

The US army has decommissioned its final Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, a unit made famous in the 1970 film MASH and a long-running TV series.

The last MASH was handed over to the Pakistani military in Muzaffarabad to continue treating quake victims there.

MASH units were founded in 1945, but have been replaced with combat support units that get closer to the frontline.

The film and TV series were black comedies on the life and loves of a MASH crew during the Korean War.

The 212th MASH was the last in the US army. It was the first US army hospital to be established in Iraq in 2003 and is the most decorated combat hospital in the army.

It's all CASH now...