Encrypted /home

Reading Zeth’s blog, I’ve found this interesting article about encrypting your /home.. And the reasons had convinced me to do the same.
One observation (I see this happen in more than one thinkpad model) :
I don’t know why, but Ubuntu linux eat lots of minutes to boot with a black screen, and when you use a [...]

Office 2007 documents

Since my job are freak about using office 2007 docs (and Im freak about not using windows), I just trying to find some way to do this inside linux.