OOXML: Go To Hell!
Demonstration against OOXML, originally uploaded by Martin Bekkelund.
It is a day after the Go Open conference in Oslo and I am still holed up in a hotel nearby. Blearily stumbling down to breakfast, I was confronted with a mix of lukewarm meatballs, easy listening radio — both of which are common enough to encounter in [...]
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Adventures in Experimental Cooking: Vobla Soup
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Vobla, originally uploaded by zak_greant.
Early last week, I ventured out to our local German and Eastern European deli. While picking up the regular assortment of cured meats, [...]
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Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto
Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty on the Future (and Past) of Databases
After a break, Tommi Mikkonen of the Tampere University of Technology introduces Monty Widenius (who is, as most readers of this blog will know is one of the founders of MySQL AB)
Monty takes the stage wearing a suit - a nice suit - something I don't recall having seen before.
He starts with an overview [...]
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Breakfast 2007-09-24
Breakfast 2007-09-24, originally uploaded by zak_greant.
Breakfast today consisted of 100 grams of cooked baby bok choy, 100 grams of vinegared organic onion, an organic egg, 50 grams cooked lentils, 90 grams of organic apple and about a tablespoon of butter for cooking the bok choy.
The onions were a bit hard to face, as was the [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-14
Sunahara-sensei from Mozilla 24, originally uploaded by fumi.
For the week ending Friday, September 14th, I:
Continued to neglect my reports on various conferences
Talked to Malcolm Matson from OPLAN Foundation about possible ways to cooperate
Traveled to and from San Francisco and got to stay with my totally awesome friends at Meerkat Manor
Presented The Age of Literate Machines [...]
Hippie-Deluxe BarCamp Vancouver Food
After a night that was way too long (and with a good chunk of help from Dan, Elizabeth and Mandy - thanks folks!), we now have hippie-deluxe (and I don't mean that in a pejorative way) vegan allergy-sensitive food for BarCamp Vancouver.
Hippie-deluxe, in this case, means organic ingredients from local farmers (within a day's drive).
Allergy [...]
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Having received no cards on Father's Day, Jupiter is inconsolate
Father's Day Card: Jupiter and Thetis, originally uploaded by zak_greant.
Happy Father's Day
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Most of this week was taken up with preparing for and attending the eLiberatica conference. In fact, as I write this very brief report, I am in the town of Rasnov in Romania. I'll be here for another day before I return home.
The event went extremely well - people were eager to discuss and share [...]
I've been South Parked
Gunnstein, one of my eZ systems colleagues, just South Parked Nancy (eZ's Admin. Manager for North America) and myself.
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