I’ve been looking for a decent tool to convert PDF files to Word files and I think I’ve finally found it…and it’s actually on online tool.
PDF to Word is an online document converter which does a pretty good job on the conversion. I tested a 10 page file with heavy graphics and aside from one or two minor dropouts, it did the job fantastically. Give it a try sometime.
They have some other great tools there too which include:
With all the hubbub of the holiday season, it was (almost) easy for me to forget that I turned the big 4-0 on the 21st. The more I reflect on it, the more I’m amazed at the number of things that have changed and the advances that have been made in my lifetime. There’s been a lot made of “The Greatest Generation” of baby-boomers and all the advances made in their collective lifetimes. But it would seem that my “Generation X’ers” have kicked that into hyperdrive.
A few examples:
- I was just a few months old when Neil Armstrong muttered those famous words “One small step for man…” since then we’ve seen hundreds of space shuttles launch and land safely…and watched in horror as God took the brave astronauts from us on Challenger and Columbia.
- We watched as the music industry went from 45s and LP’s to 8-tracks, cassettes, cd’s, and ultimately digital in the form of portable mp3’s, Ipods and phones that play music.
- Rotary dial phones to push button, to big clunky purse-sized cell phones to phones in your pocket.
- GPS…knowing where you are to within a few meters at all times. Just when I got good at folding maps too.
- Building-sized computers to desktops to laptops to hand-helds to palms. And everything that came along with it. Mankind has never been so connected or informed at any time in history…and yet we can still be so lonely as we substitute online relationships for virtual “friends”. Give me a good conversation with friends over a beer any day.
- Better living through chemistry…medical and pharmaceutical advances in the last 20 years alone makes one wonder just how long we will live.
- Worse living through chemistry…read some junk-food labels some time and wonder how this stuff doesn’t kill you.
- The Civil Rights Movement of the 60s was winding down as I was born. Now we have our first Black president.
And yet for all of our advances, human-kind still reverts far too often to some of it’s more basic instincts. We’ve gotten very good at finding new and innovative ways of killing each other. Terrorists, the War on Terror, suicide bombings, human rights violations, genocide and the list goes on.
Once, when I was very young, I read a Beatle Bailey comic strip where Sarge told Beetle that, in the entire course of human history, there’s been less than 200 years of peace so the military always has to be prepared. Beetle responded by asking a simple question. Something to the effect of “if that’s the case, shouldn’t we be preparing for peace?” Amazing the things that stick with you as you get older, isn’t it?
Seems my “layoff” (read as “firing”) along with two others back in January was a harbinger of things to come. Two more good friends with whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting occasionally for lunch every now and again were “let go” (read “fired”) today. That brings the total number of folks out the door this year to eight. Considering that, including attorney’s and partners, there were 22 folks working there at the start of this year, things are looking bleak.
What just a year ago was one of the largest real estate law firms in town with several of the top builders as clients is now a shell of it’s former self. At least one of those major builders is in serious financial troubles and others are coming up with all kinds of crazy schemes to get folks to buy while their stock plunges. Not hard to imagine why the folks in the glass building are shedding payroll expense like it’s going out of style.
But in all seriousness, it did serve to emphasize the fact that no one person can possibly keep up with all the new Web 2.0 apps…much less use them all. The simple fact is that they can be very useful for promotion of either yourself or your business…you just have to find the one that works best for you I guess.
CS was an informative conference…at least the sessions I was able to attend, but was a little discouraged about the lack of familiar local faces in the crowd (just 3 from Greensboro at the Saturday IBC?). Wouldn’t be at all surprised if this was the last ConvergeSouth in Greensboro.
On a Twitter note…some bastard had already taken “TheShu”…so I had to go with theshu2. Serves me right for draggin my feet I guess.
I used to complain about the number and frequency of campaign commercials on tv in past elections. It used to really get on my nerves when I would see the same commercials over and over again.
But not anymore.
Since acquiring a DVR a few years ago, commercials go by in blissful silence. I don’t think I’ve seen a campaign ad yet this year…from any party or any candidate. Candidates are spending millions on tv commercials…and for that matter newspaper ads which I don’t subscribe to…and their message isn’t getting thru to me. What a waste.
Because like a growning number of Americans, I choose where and how I get my media today. So I ask the candidates, what are you doing to reach me…and others like me? Ya better be online for starters.
I wonder how long it will take til someone successfully runs a virtual campaign for a major office.
Only had a few things at the fair after coming off of the gyro/loukoumades high at Greekfest. The deep fried Oreos are ok…but loukoumades are better. Either way though, I felt like Templeton the rat by the time I was done. Of course I mean Templeton as only the timeless Paul Lynde could play him:
The schedule just didn’t allow time to make it to the ice cream social today. But there’s always next year.
Avast ye landlubbers! This be some funny shite, mateys!
You can set your Facebook to display your page in pirate talk in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Just go here and select English (Pirate).
Upon doing that, you no longer have friends, you have “me hearties”, you are no longer a fan of something or someone, you became their “crewmember” , you no longer have an inbox, you have a “Bottle o’ Messages” and so on. It’s kind of cool, but I imagine it will get stupid after a while so I’ll change back to borin’ ol’ English. No reason not to enjoy the day though!
No, it’s not Christmas…but it almost feels like it. I’m giddy as a schoolgirl. It’s time for “The” weekend.
Look at this lineup:
All weekend long, it’s GreekFest at the Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church on the corner of Friendly and Westridge Rd. Look at those luscious Loukamades…just dripping with honey and cinnamon…oh my…as they say in the military…GET SOME! And get some gyros too!
And then there’s The Music Academy’s 16th annual Ice Cream and Music Festival on Saturday…note it’s on Saturday this year instead of Sunday as it has been for the past few years. $7 for all you can eat ice cream and music, baby! That’s what I’m talking about! It’s at Guilford college…which conveniently is right down the street from Greekfest.
And don’t forget the Central Carolina Fair ends this weekend as well. More good food and fun to be had.
I almost don’t know where to start. It’s bad for the waistline, but lots of good food and fun.
