Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Karl Klammer

What is wrong with all the people? Not too long ago, I was forced to take a look at that horrible horrible terrible horrid Office 2007 bullshit package. It looks untidy, its toolbars are cluttering half (if not more) of my screen, its UI paradigm are totally different and weird, it was not (okay, that is not surprising at all, after all it's a genuine Microsoft product) able to open the first Powerpoint 2003 file flying around, it has this nasty shiny big button on the left hand side and it lacks the most important, cool feature of the old Office: Clippit...
...or "Karl Klammer" which is its much cooler German name that I am going to use from now. How could this happen? Actually, Karl was the reason to choose Office 2003 over any other office suite in the world. Now we can as well use LaTeX to type our one-page-letters...
By the way, why do the search expressions "Karl Klammer" and "Petition" in google not result in several sites with the attempt to bring Karl back? They only point to rant of irrelevant people how to get rid of him! Can you imagine?
Karl, you will always have a special place in my heart. Forever.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Whatever pleasrue Karl Klammer has done to you, I hate him! Performing penetrant gymnastics always in front of my texts. And if you ask him something, he has absolutely no helpful ideas. Somehow more inspiring, at least optically, is Einstein. He gives my work a scientific touch.

Thomas Zander said...

But Karl really does awesome gymnastics! You just gotta like him!