The SoapVox

I found this interesting post in The Standards Blog, which I monitor daily. Andy takes on the latest FUD spouting from Redmond, noting that it seems like the Powers That Be at the convicted monopolist have decided how they are going to face the ODF problem…with ultra-nice FUD…as usual.
It seems like Bill G’s army of [...]

I found this on Damien Katz’ blog and found it extremely funny…and extremely truthfull too. It makes me think of more than a few “uber programmers” I know…but since it’d be a really bad idea to email it to them directly, I decided to link to it from here instead and hope they’ll find it [...]

A few days ago (May 3rd), Pamela Jones from Groklaw found a Request for Information which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts put out, trying to find a way to make MSOffice read/write ODF.
The following day, of course, somebody came around and told PJ that they had a plugin to do exactly what Massachusetts wants done. That [...]

It happened at last, unfortunately…Silicon Graphics Inc, aka SGI, has filed for Chapter 11 bankrupcy protection, according to the WSJ.
And when I say unfortunately, I mean it…I still remember the days when every geek out there would drool over the latest SGI box out there, hopeing and wishing they could afford it, be it for [...]

Ok, you may remember that I asked for a bday gift before, but I realize that one of those readers is expensive…so…if you are as poor as me, you may prefer something like this bookshelf instead :) Tho…if each of those holds 8 books as the picture shows, I’ll need…mmm…about 120 bookshelfs for my books, [...]

Ok, I just read this ZDNet post (via LinuxToday) and I have to say something about it.
As you probably can see from the rest of this blog, I’m a linux user. But I’m also an IT consultant (I know, I know…but it’s better than working for a company, at least for somebody with the weird [...]

Yes! The OpenDocument format has officialy become an ISO standard, ISO/IEC 26300, which means that it can now be pushed at government entities with even more strenght…now we (the FLOSS community) can say “why use an ‘industry standard’ when you can use a real international standar?” when talking about document storage and production. This should [...]

Ok, as you may have guessed by now, I’m a linux user…but my dark secret is that I also like the Mac…OSX is what every OS should strive for…but the one thing that makes Apple special is not their tech…it’s their culture.
Apple is, IMNSHO, the only company that can make my cynic view of [...]

Stephen Colbert was in the White House on Saturday night and had lots of fun nailing and re-nailing President Bush…seemingly, the Prez can’t take a joke (or a big bunch of them :) at the expense of his person or his administration…too bad ;)
Most of the main media is ignoring the fact that Colbert made [...]