According to this article, the answer is **sorta**.

The good news is that one-time charges are what drove it into the red. Apple wrote down $49 million for declining investments. Subtract such charges, and the business eked out $7 million in profit — a whole 2 cents a share.

This, in the face of the tech bubble burst, is incredible.

It looks M$ might just open up its file format in V11 of its office software suite. This is great if it actually happens.

The co-inventor of XML, Tim Bray, has been talking about the newly XML-enabled version of Microsoft Office, code-named **Office 11** and tells XML-Journal that when the huge universe of MS Office documents becomes available for processing by any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence, all sorts of wonderful new things can be invented that you and I can’t imagine.

When that happens, the product will have to compete based on features and stability instead of just simply customer lock-in. Then other products such as [[OpenOffice]] might have a chance to make an impact.

Let’s just hope the have the right guys.

Members of the sniper task force arrested an ex-soldier and his stepson early Thursday at a freeway rest stop. Sources told CNN the two were considered suspects in the shootings that have killed 10 and wounded three in the Washington area.

His name is John Allen Muhammad. With a name like that, you gotta wonder if he has ties to Al Queda. The scary part is that he’s an ex-soldier in the US army and a gulf war veteran!!!

This comes from [[DVDReview.com]], a great source for information and reviews on upcoming dvd releases.

New Line has been on the bleeding edge wit this production form beginning to end. Whether it’s their audacity – and Peter Jackson’s madness – to shoot all three parts of the movie at the same time, or the quality of this DVD package, this studio shows what the term “dedication” can mean – even in Hollywood. This is a stellar DVD release that is flawless from the first to the last bit. It is a must-buy, becasue this is one of the best DVDs I have ever seen!

**OK!** You talked me into it [[:-)]] .

It’s being called NeoOffice right now and they have a prototype up and running.

Welcome to the online home of **Neolithic Office**, or NeoOffice for short. NeoOffice is a prototyping project that was used to explore different methods and problems that will be encountered when porting [[OpenOffice.org]] to run natively on MacOS X. It uses a mixture of Carbon and Cocoa to run [[OpenOffice.org]] directly on top of MacOS X with an [[Aqua]] look and provide the foundation upon which the user interface can be redesigned to utilize sheets, drawers, and other conventions of the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. That “feel” has yet to be engineered and designed…so if you have suggestions let us know!

Very interesting. I can’t wait… a free **full** office suite!!!

The Giants were completely outplayed last night.

The Anaheim Angels had their own idea of how to party at Pac Bell Park.

Scott Spiezio, Darin Erstad and the Angels trampled San Francisco 10-4 Tuesday night, crashing the Giants’ homecoming and taking a 2-1 lead in the World Series.

I hope they can regroup and be ready for the game tonight. If they can’t even the series, it’s all over.

After blowing a 5 run lead, the Angels fought back to even the series at one game a piece.

Tim Salmon gushed about the home run — not his, the one by Barry Bonds.

“That was the farthest ball I’ve ever seen hit in this ballpark, for sure,” he said.

Salmon trumped that 485-foot shot with the drive that counted the most.

Well, now it’s up to San Francisco for game three. If the giants just win their home games, they win the series.

In a thrilling game, LA defeated NE with a golden goal by Ruiz in the 113th minute.

Give Carlos Ruiz enough chances, and he’s going to come out a winner.

Same with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Ruiz scored in the 23rd minute of overtime Sunday to give the Galaxy their first Major League Soccer title. He broke a scoreless tie to end the longest game in league history, a 1-0 victory over the New England Revolution in the MLS Cup.

Congratulations LA! Same time next year [[:-)]]

I can’t believe they would stoop to this level.

Microsoft has yanked another of its fraudulent user testimonials, in this case a fictitious twelve-year-old boy raving about a fictional homework assignment and the indespensable insights he received from MS Encarta Reference Library in preparing it.

Are they really losing this many customers to the Mac that they feel they have to lie to keep people using Windows XP???

Iconic computer firm Microsoft has reported far higher than expected profits, helping to restore investor confidence in the battered technology sector..

The figure, released after the close of stock trading in New York on Thursday, was more than double the $1.28bn in profits that the firm reported in the same period last year.

I guess this just goes to prove that the ends really do justify the means.