Are you losing connection, or immediately getting logged off Window Live Messenger? If so, a possible solution is that you Live account has groups associated that are causing the issue. To solve connection issues, I was able to remove my groups and this allowed me to connect. Not a great fix, but does solve my issue today.

Will forward this scenario to Microsoft Support…

Had an interesting problem that I needed to solve when generating filler text within Microsoft® Word®. Adobe® InDesign® provides a convenient method for creating fill text on demand when layout a document — Word offers a similar feature to generate text.

Microsoft Office can generate random text using two internal functions =rand() or =lorem(). These two functions can generate several paragraphs of random text within your design.

1. Open a new Microsoft word document.
2. type =lorem() and hit Enter.
3. This simple code will create three paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum characters.
4. If you wish to get something longer, you can control what the code above generates thanks to  simple variables: =lorem(Number of Paragraphs, Number of Lines).
5. Here is an example: =lorem(4,7) This code will automatically generate 4 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum text and it will span across 7 sentences.
   1. =lorem(4,7)
6. The lorem() function is available in Word 2007 or higher.

See Also

Lorem Ipsum (001), Lorem Ipsum (002)

Example

=lorem(4,7)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna. Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.

Proin pharetra nonummy pede. Mauris et orci. Aenean nec lorem. In porttitor. Donec laoreet nonummy augue. Suspendisse dui purus, scelerisque at, vulputate vitae, pretium mattis, nunc. Mauris eget neque at sem venenatis eleifend.

Ut nonummy. Fusce aliquet pede non pede. Suspendisse dapibus lorem pellentesque magna. Integer nulla. Donec blandit feugiat ligula. Donec hendrerit, felis et imperdiet euismod, purus ipsum pretium metus, in lacinia nulla nisl eget sapien. Donec ut est in lectus consequat consequat.

Etiam eget dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed at lorem in nunc porta tristique. Proin nec augue. Quisque aliquam tempor magna. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nunc ac magna.

Initial beta release planned for summer 2009 supports Windows and UNIX development. For the Windows environment, Cygwin is required. The Cygwin UNIX-like environment provides the C/C++ compiler, build tools and supporting applications to deliver a lightweight build environment. Support on Linux and other UNIX-based environment require the GNU toolset.

Plans continue on shaping a unique environment that support development in Java, C#, C++, and Perl using several IDE-based development tool — Rational Software Architect, Visual Studio 2005/2008, Komodo, GCC/GDB command-line — across Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac environments.

In true entrepreneur fashion, there is too much work and not enough resources (and time) to handle the marketing and promotion required.  Acornsoft is focused on four projects; updates will be posted monthly on Facebook and Acornsoft on Windows Live. Daily updates will be release on Twitter, but with much less detail and shall be on a more sporadic basis.

Four projects to be completed in 2009 include:

• Acornsoft Development Environment (ASDE)
• Acornsoft Activity Planner (ASAP)
• Acornsoft Enterprise Integration tools (Acornsoft Gemini)

Acornsoft Business website (www.acornsoft.biz)

Planning resource needs (people and hardware) required to support 2009 activities.  Acornsoft is looking into obtaining government-based grant money to fund some of these activities. At the very least to help pay for the computer equipment and software need to support SharePoint development and establishing several virtual servers.