There's plenty of comment is circulating about both the proposed software patent legislation at the European Parliament and the fact the wave of protest...
Just back from a day-trip to Dublin. It's a long day (out at 7am, home by 9:30pm) but it avoids a night away. During the day I dropped in on NewBay , makers of...
OK, I want one . Question is, does one avoid London's congestion charges if one uses the Thames? -- Posted by Simon Phipps to Webmink : the blog at 9/4/2003...
The venerable ACM are reporting that, in tests they conducted, StarOffice 6.0 is highly compatible with MS Office files. Of course, if MS used an open file...
I've been giving radio interviews today on US talk radio, and it seems StarOffice and OpenOffice are the subject of the day - it's time to end the monoculture...
I don't think he's a convert yet because Rafe Colburn doesn't seem to have taken much time looking at the word processor component of OpenOffice.org. He thinks...
Richard Allen comments on the EU move towards software patents . I have not seen any compelling evidence to suggest that software development is being held up...
Illiad has, I think, understood the RIAA's 'amnesty' "offer" pretty well. Presumably SCO are working on creating a similar form. Are all these people reading...
Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Coumbine' is finally out on DVD (seems to have taken an age) - I just ordered my copy (Amazon: UK | US | CA ). -- Posted by Simon...
Interesting what one finds out about one's own employer. I discovered today that Sun has a web site for public policy issues ( www.sun.com/policy ) and in...
Because of some stupidity in the Yahoo system that's been triggered by some stupidity at my ISP, recent postings on the blog haven't showed up here - sorry....
Just to make things a bit more interesting, the candidates in the California Governor election are listed in random order [via Boing Boing - link is to a...
... Since it doesn't appear to accept comments without a valid Burton Group login, I'll comment here. Your initial entry regards Mono. I agree with much that...
Anne Thomas Manes has started writing a regular journal - take a look. Anne & I joined Sun at about the same time, but as you'll note she's no longer there. --...
In Anne's posting she talks about the idea of porting Jakarta to Mono, the project to implement C# and the core of the CLI from .NET on Linux. She says: But...
Ted Leung takes issue with my response to Anne's 'Jakarta on Mono' idea. He says: Unfortunately, for Simon, he's throwing rocks in a glass house. Sun is the...
... wrote for One Quiet Night. I finally picked up the CD this week and have been listening to it continuously. This is just another example of Pat Metheny's...
Three improbable finds to round out Sunday evening here in California. Ghost Town in Silicon Valley : Sadly it's sold out, otherwise I would have been very...
If you've ever read Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' series of graphic novels, you'll be thrilled to hear there's a new one on the way. He's returned to the Sandman...
Also due out in October is Michael Moore's new book, "Dude, Where's My Country" [ US | UK | CA ] which is already 19th in the Amazon.com bestseller list and...
I spend a huge amount of time on instant messaging when I'm home (quite a bit when I'm mobile too) so maybe these new toys from Marx [via Gizmodo ] in the US...
Maybe inspired by the Sun announce-a-thon last week, Nokia has announced a wave of new, potentially game-changing products including a new phone design with...
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