Recently, I needed to capture the output of a program in a PDF. A few minutes of googling led me to PDF Creator (hosted at SourceForge). The application itself is great, but when you install it, a toolbar is bundled with it—pdfforge. You don’t get an option. It’s simply installed on your behalf—as a “benefit.” The worst parts of the license agreement are shown below:
Sorry, I’ve been more than a bit busy lately. Working as an independent coach is very rewarding and time consuming. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reviewing sessions for the Manifesting Agility Stage at Agile2009: “This Stage is all about tools and techniques for rapidly developing a deep understanding of the empirical Agile mindset, and then rapidly applying it—as individuals, and as groups.” As you can imagine, even with only 87 proposals, this takes a lot of time. Our stage has 1,440 minutes allotted and 3,750 minutes of proposals.
It’s been hard work. In theory, we should first give every proposal a proper review, even if it’s only a few sentences. While I tried that and was able to provide comments (visible to the public) or reviews (visible only to the author and other reviewers), commented on or reviewed 50+ sessions (across all the stages). Sorry, too, that everyone whose session didn’t get a review. There are only three of us who actually do the work on this stage, and we just can’t provide notes to all of you. Consider these notes your comments.