EPIC FAIL: Australia fails to take a position on OOXML, abstains on final OOXML vote.
It’s disappointing that while our Prime Minister travels the world with a stated intention to increase Australia’s influence and activism on the global stage, we at home have failed so miserably to come to a conclusion — positive or negative — about OOXML.
As a participant on the […]
During a thread about daylight savings confusion here in Sydney, Martin Barry asked the SLUG list why updates to Ubuntu packages go into a separate “updates” repository. John Ferlito suggested that I blog my answer…
I’ve never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates thing.
A separate repositry for security I understand due to the need to bypass mirror lag.
But anything worthy of going […]
Jim Melton responds to Rick Jelliffe’s SQL/OOXML comparison
“[T]he standardizers of SQL weren’t so arrogant that we thought we could rush […] 6,000 pages in one go, without it [being] visible to the vast, vast majority of the world until it started its FINAL ballot.” — Summarised here, do read the whole thing.
(tags: ooxml microsoft sql jimmelton rickjelliffe […]
Somewhat belated celebration of our latest release, but hey, I just wanted to see the release love continue to roll by on all the Planets. Check out Dave’s release linkage for some bricks and whole bunch of bouquets.
Definitely great to see Cheese (of which I am quite the fan) so prominently featured in the release […]
When standards ain’t standards
“OOXML works well, but things would have been much better had Microsoft adopted ODF. Microsoft now seems to have been too clever by half, to its own detriment and that of consumers.” — Mainstream opinion piece on OOXML by Graeme Philipson
(tags: ooxml odf microsoft office graemephilipson)
European Commission to increase its use of Open Source
“For […]
Lucky 7: you’re number isn’t up yet, Brendan
“An adult Australian, selected at random, is now statistically more likely to be an asthma sufferer than a Brendan Nelson supporter.” — Annabel Crabb is back! Yay!
(tags: australia politics annabelcrabb brendannelson liberal)
Firefox tip: delete an autocomplete entry
“Now this is cool. Select the autocomplete entry with the up/down arrows on your […]
“Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.” — Bill Clinton, […]
