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This is a test. This is only a test. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am entering a new phase of functionality by using Microsoft Word 2007 as a blog editor! For those of you thus completely unimpressed, here are some reasons why you might want to care:

• Microsoft again clearly flexing its power muscles in the face of certain other computer manufacturers who shall remain nameless.
• By using Word, I have the freedom to write blog posts while not currently online, which means….
• I can write posts in all of the following places where I’m usually shut out:
  • Starbucks, which while owning the portion of my wallet devoted to caffeine, has not been able to dip into my wallet to pay for wireless
  • Outside in city parks. Los Angeles is beautiful, and the fact that I could get work done outside especially as the weather gets nicer is all the more inclining to me to stay out doors.
  • Boring school meetings in which I find myself locked in a 10′ x 15′ room for six hours with the science dept. chair, two principals, the math coach, the technology coach, the special ed. coordinator, the ESL coordinator, and the Title-I coordinator, pounding out a ridiculous amount of meaningless paperwork for the most bureaucratic system that one could possibly imagine!

Anyway, enough of the rant….

Let’s hope this blog post actually works….!