Mail merge to individual documents

Useful free add-in to allow you to save a sequence of individual documents from your mail merge. Now to work out how to automatically email them to the individuals with a tailored email message. [Update: this will work, but is a little tricky]

ExMerge as an exchange backup tool

ExMerge lets you grab multiple mailboxes to PSTs. This is a great backup, especially of old dead mailboxes you want to delete from your system. I got an “EXCHMEM.dll not found” error, fixed by copying the file from /Exchsvr/bin to the ExMerge folder. Some...

Lookout date parsing error

So once you have gone to the trouble of getting Lookout to work in Outlook 2007, you find that the date parsing is broken (I got the “incorrect date syntax in range” error). You can either force Outlook to downgrade its .Net framework, or fix the Lookout dll (I...

Governmentium

I hadn’t come across governmentium before. I have now. Link was www.dullmen.com/governmentium.htm but marked as malware. Here’s a newer link.

Astronomy

Great photo of the earth reflected in an astronaut’s visor. Meta-meta-meta kind of thing.And another classic view of Andromeda, a standard run-of-the-mill galaxy.

Why is music different to pr0n?

Great article by Charles Arthur suggesting that many industries have already changed their business model (or died) in the light of consumer preference as expressed over the web.