Let's say that I want to introduce OpenOffice.org to an organization that already has site licenses for Microsoft Office. I'd talk about it in terms of money: that is, how much people would save if they switched. I'd give them some time to try OpenOffice.org out in order to see if they can survive a year without Microsoft Office. It'll be up to them to figure out what to do with OpenOffice.org, but they can form support groups if they want.

Because site licenses depend on the number of seats, I'd keep a running count of the people who signed up for the program so that we can see the prospective savings. I'd pass those savings directly to the employees' monthly salaries so that they can see the effect. It'll cost more initially--think of this as the cost of training.

This makes the benefits of open source tangible and rewards people who are open to change.

I'd keep at least one Windows machine with Microsoft Office around so that people have somewhere to go when a client sends them something braindead. However, I would post a sign warning people about viruses, and do an anti-virus sweep frequently (every night?). The results of this would be posted.

I think I'm overdrilling the kanji. I need to finish the chuukyuu homework in less time, though. According to my timeclock (absolutely wonderful, that thing is!), this is how I spent my day yesterday:

0:38:30	Kanji lesson 25: Review
0:39:38	Take my laundry down and iron it
0:02:43	Kanji lesson 25: Second review
0:38:12	Kanji lesson 26: 1st pass
0:22:07	Dinner
0:31:04	Chuukyuu homework 13
0:06:35	Kanji lesson 26: 2nd pass
0:18:56	Chuukyuu homework 14
0:31:12	Kanji lesson 27: 1st pass
1:08:55	Chuukyuu homework 15

for a total of around 5 hours and much tiredness.

Perhaps I can use electronic flashcards instead, although I won't be able to sort it that easily. Instead of sorting, I can perhaps skip over stuff I already know. Using flashcard.el's Leitner method will result in overdrilling again. I should practice writing based on the reading, as that will also take care of making sure I learn onyomi.

Maybe I should make two passes per group of five kanji, then one pass through the whole thing. After that, I'll do the homework. Review is done as one pass of writing through the whole thing.

I'm almost out of word cards. I'll need to either stock up on them or think of an electronic way to do this. I need quick access to the correct answer and a way to keep track of my progress. I have to resist the temptation to hack up something quickly. I shouldn't be thinking about writing a program to do the job. (Once a programmer, always a programmer)...

Mmkay. As for optimizing my chuukyuu homework: I should probably fill the vocabulary part all in one go. If I keep the computer open, I can use it to look up pronunciation. I should also review all of the grammar using the web-based training notes, as they provide just the bare essentials. When in doubt, I can turn to the paper version.

Today:

- Get my Chuukyuu chapter time down to 20 minutes.

- Break down my kanji study time into the time it takes me to copy the

kanji down, the time it takes me to make a first pass and the retention rate of such, the time it takes me to make a second pass, and how much time until I feel reasonably happy with my progress.

- Use another method for my second set of kanji: groups of five in

between Chuukyuu questions. Track total time.

5 retained, 7 missed.

6 retained, 1 missed.

30 retained, 5 missed.

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0:08:46	Kanji 28: Copy compounds onto paper
0:05:16	Kanji 28: Practice writing, first pass ...
0:02:05	Kanji 28: Practice writing, second pass ...
0:03:14	Kanji 29: Combined pass
0:09:18	Kanji 26, 27: Review

Considering that it takes only 9 minutes to copy things down on paper, I think I'll continue using the wordcards. They're handy for reviewing, too. That means I need to go to Jusco and buy more. Three chapters of kanji fill up one word card ring, conservatively speaking. I need six word card rings for the rest of the book, and perhaps two for my review. I will buy 4 sets of 2 word card rings tonight.

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- Richard Stallman (founder of Free Software Foundation) is an Emacs user. Hint: He is the original author of Emacs, after all. :-)

- Yukihiro Matsumoto (creator of the Ruby programming language) is an Emacs user. Hint: He said so in a post to ruby-talk mailing list. Quote from http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/108051: "I wrote ruby-mode.el; I live in Emacs; I program in Emacs; I debug in Emacs; I read mails in Emacs; I wrote MUA for Emacs."

- Jeremy Zawodny (author of "High Performance MySQL") is an Emacs user. Hint: He wrote Emacs Beginners' Howto (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/emacs/).

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum used elle. It is some clone of emacs. Then

he moved to emacs. He said so in his homepage. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/faq.html "Which editor do you use for producing books? I used to use elle, a stripped down emacs clone, but I finally decided to take the plunge and move up to full emacs."

- James Gosling, father of Java, currently CTO at Sun's Developer Products Group, uses Emacs. Hint: He wrote a C-based Emacs implementation in 1981 (the code portions of which became GNU Emacs). ... Uh, no. He was one of the reasons that the GPL and copyright assignments were invented. His code had to be removed from Emacs and substantial portions rewritten by Stallman, because he refused to let his stuff get distributed by the FSF.

- Jamie Zawinski, one of the main coders for Netscape Navigator and one the founders of the Mozilla Foundation, uses Emacs. Hint: He wrote Lucid Emacs. There's an Emacs timeline document on his website, http://www.jwz.org/ ... So you can bet your sweet *** that he is not using Emacs, but rather XEmacs (which is the successor of Lucid Emacs).

- Guy Steele. Co-inventor of Scheme, author of "Common Lisp the

Language", co-author of the Java language specification, first person to port TeX, served on the standards commitees for C, Fortran, Common Lisp and Scheme. And finally designer of the original Emacs command set.

- John McCarthy. Inventor of Lisp, one of the founders of AI

research. (proof: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/facts.txt).

- SF writer Neil Stephenson uses Emacs for some of his books

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html "I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor."

- Donald Erwin Knuth (creator of TeX) is an Emacs user. Hint:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html See that Fvwm2-config and its screenshot.

- Eric "ESR" Steven Raymond is an Emacs user. Hints: Author of "Learning

GNU Emacs". See also this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/fvwm2/