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More CPU
As an experiment, I’ve decided to go with the “more CPU” option at $20 more a month from my web hosting provider, HostMonster. While this may have been seen as something obvious to do at the beginning, I was told that this very well might not fix my problem, just make it somewhat less frequent. [...]
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Oct 02 2007, 02:36:39 PM EDT
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Three miles near the Erie Canal
This last Saturday morning I drove my daughter Katie up to Rochester so she could run in the McQuaid Invitational, a meet of 24 cross country races held at the Genesee Valley Park. This is a huge event and this year it attracted about 5000 runners.
Katie has been running cross country since middle school and [...]
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Oct 01 2007, 12:31:48 PM EDT
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Wednesday: OECD in Ottawa
I’ll be speaking this Wednesday at the OECD-Canada Forum on the Participative Web: Strategies and Policies for the Future. There have been a few flavors of the title of my talk floating around, the latest is “Virtual worlds, web blogs, and collaborative spaces: Why interoperability matters more than ever”. The full program is here in [...]
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Oct 01 2007, 09:59:21 AM EDT
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links for 2007-09-26
Google’s Virtual World Could Be Business Answer To Second Life - Google Blog - InformationWeek
“As if Google (GOOG) isn’t pervasive enough, it looks like the search-engine company is planning to launch its own virtual world, which will compete with Second Life, but could be much more valuable to business users in real-world applications.”
(tags: Google secondlife [...]
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Sep 27 2007, 08:53:32 AM EDT
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Album of the day
Today’s album of the day, a new and presumably sporadic feature of this blog, is Laura Cantrell’s 2000 debut album Not the Tremblin’ Kind. Standout tracks for me are the title song and the cover of the Volebeat’s “Two Seconds.” emusic describes her style as “neo-traditionalist country,” and that works for me, but I would [...]
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Sep 23 2007, 04:04:24 PM EDT
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The college tours continue
My family and I got back late last night from our most recent college tour for my daughter Katie, who has just entered her senior year of high school. This time it was down to eastern Pennsylvania and central New Jersey to see Swarthmore and Princeton, respectively.
Swarthmore has a beautiful campus since it all an [...]
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Sep 23 2007, 11:50:51 AM EDT
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links for 2007-09-20
OpenOffice 2.3 The Latest Threat To Desktop King Microsoft — Office — InformationWeek
“Fresh with support from IBM, the latest version adds capabilities to the suite’s core word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications.”
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Russia is latest country to move towards OpenDocument format and open standards - ITRPortal.com
“The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance) has congratulated Russia for [...]
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Sep 22 2007, 09:37:27 PM EDT
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links for 2007-09-19
Lotus Symphony
IBM Lotus Symphony
“Lotus Symphony is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard-which means you’re not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades. Finally, free tools and freedom of choice!”
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IBM To Offer Free Office Software In Challenge To Microsoft — IBM — InformationWeek
“Because it’s free, Lotus Symphony [...]
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Sep 19 2007, 02:52:08 PM EDT
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M & A
Yahoo buys e-mail software firm Zimbra | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
“The Zimbra acquisition, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, and Yahoo’s $300 million purchase earlier this month of display ad provider Blue Lithium are an indication of the future direction of the company as it [...]
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Sep 18 2007, 07:56:37 PM EDT
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From Second Life and Back
I’m on the plane now between Chicago and Tucson, heading for the InformationWeek 500 Conference. Travel has gone very well so far, with no glitches. Evidently the guy sitting behind me on the plane was arrested recently on a Driving-While-Intoxicated charge. To hear him speak, the problem was that he got caught, not that he [...]
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Sep 16 2007, 10:58:55 PM EDT
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Tucson bound
I’m heading out to Tucson, Arizona, today to attend and be on a panel at the InformationWeek 500 Conference. Here’s the description of the panel, to be moderated by Mitch Wagner:
Beyond Fantasy: Second Life Opens For Business
It’s one part Star Trek holodeck, one part Mall of America. Second Life, Linden Lab’s 3-D virtual world, isn’t [...]
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Sep 16 2007, 08:39:43 AM EDT
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IBM joins OpenOffice.org
See the press release “IBM joins the OpenOffice.org community to develop and promote OpenOffice.org technology”. It says, in part,
10 September 2007 — The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as [...]
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Sep 10 2007, 02:39:33 PM EDT
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Home from Poland
First let me say how surprised I was when I got home last night and discovered that I had not posted a blog entry since Tuesday. I was in the UK and in Poland this week and did a lot of traveling. For example, I was away from home for six nights and during those [...]
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Sep 09 2007, 10:02:44 AM EDT
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OOXML, the past. ODF, the future.
It’s old news now, but ISO has announced that OOXML failed to meet both of the criteria for success in the Five Month Ballot Period. Andy Updegrove and Pam Jones have the details.
Congratulations to all who worked to secure this result in the goal of high quality, non-vendor dictated open standards. The story is not [...]
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Sep 04 2007, 07:25:45 PM EDT
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I fly away
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I’m traveling today, even though it is the middle day of the three day US Labor Day weekend. Normally I would try not to do this, but I’ve got some meetings in Europe and I have not had a particularly bad travel schedule for the last few [...]
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Sep 02 2007, 06:09:25 PM EDT
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