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Ok, I’ll admit…I don’t listen to music much anymore…and I don’t buy music anymore…I had a bit over 3,000 vinyl records back in the day, before my bad luck killed them all (a friend and I took both our collections of records to another friend’s house to mix some tapes…and the room burned down and [...]

I found an interesting article through LinuxToday about how it seems like the end of Unix is near, but doesn’t blame Redmond for it; he thinks that it was Linux that did the Old Giants in.
Yes, SGI filed for Chapter 11 protection a week ago, and yes, Sun Microsystems got a shake-up in their upper [...]

Another of the bloggers I relay upon the most when it comes to ODF news, besides Bob Sutor, is Andy Updegrove, in his Standards Blog. Today he posts an article about the news coverage increase about ODF and the reliability of said news coverage…he finds that some of the coverage is from malinformed to partialized, [...]

I got this month’s phone bill today…and besides the heart-stopping numbers (damn, I still don’t believe how much the phone gets used in this house), I got a small pamphlet for the Acuerdo de Chapultepec (The Chapultepec Agreement) that was signed at the end of last year. I’m betting somebody who doesn’t like Andrés Lopez [...]

Ok, there’s a lot of news and articles about ODF and the ODF vs OXML saga today…so here’s a resumed list:
“Europe can’t wait for Microsoft to play ODF catch up“, is a ZDNet opinion piece about how the EU can’t wait for MS to give them the ok in adopting ODF as the primary format [...]

Ok, here’s another great present for any geek in your life…I got this from BoingBoing, and it rocks :)
Han shot first bookends
So…another item in the list for things that I’d love to get for my bday in a few months :)
Technorati Tags: bookends, geek gifts, star wars

Pamela Jones announces that today is Groklaw’s 3rd anniversary…congratulations to PJ and the whole GL community! :) I can still remember when GL was just PJ’s personal blog with a few hundred (at most) readers and a few tens of posts (at most) for any article. It’s growth is amazing, and a proof that a [...]

I have to agree with Handy, this was the right decision for Rachel. Well done, you and your job deserve more respect than that.
EDIT: Chris, at Pearsonified, just posted an incredibly good point-by-point of this ugly saga, well worth a read if you don’t know what the whole hoopla is about.
Technorati Tags: techcrunch, rachel cunliffe

I think this article that I found in the Once More unto the Breach blog takes a very interesting view on the standards’ war between OpenDocument Format and Microsoft’s OpenXML format and their trips through the ISO standards process.
Patents and standards are orthogonal, but one can always use their combined influence in the sales pitch [...]

Cloud of Sparrows is the story of the meeting of two cultures, and it’s also the story of a love triangle that never really is.

Crossing an unknown river far from your domain, observe the surface turbulence, and note the clarity of the water. Heed the demeanor of the horses. Beware of massed ambush.
At a familiar [...]