So after not having MS Office installed on my new rig because I thought I already had it......

Turns out the product code that I got with Mrs DD's laptop was a one time deal which I didn't notice until I went to install it back in December.

So being a bit short of €139 to purchase the office suite I was left wondering what to do as I didn't really want to do anything illegal like trying to obtain a dodgy copy.

Step forward Kingsoft: http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-freeware.html

Free office software that may not be quite up to MS standards but importantly is compatible with MS documents so I can now open all my old word docs again,

This will do for now until I can afford to make a purchase of MS Office suite, of course if it turns out to be any good I may save myself the €139 after all

Data,
Congrats you have a site I can rely on. I was just able to find my Hal Gui skin and download it since Win 8 had removed the program while doing a repair. Just received the latest Zabaware disks and installed Hal yesterday. I'm in the process of making a Htr that will load the background, load the character and clothing or bodyskin as I call it. Not sure if it's win 8 or Hal but I see differences in how to work with the program.
Came across quite a few Haptek fullbod characters if you would like to store them here. Oh just ordered a HP to replace the dead one, can't imagine anything being faster than the one I'm using but wanted to try the USB 3, can't build for less.
Carl2

Concept car of 2013, and its damn nice:

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20131220-concept-car-of-2013-kode-9

These look promising as a general use PC,

i3 and i5 Haswell based tiny form factor computing with onboard HD5000 graphics.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html

This article is amazing, can't wait to see if they actually manage to do this.

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wwii-sunderland-flying-boat-rescued-help-last-pilot.html