Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
(For my English readers: I'll start and post a couple of German blogs from now on, mainly about the upcoming European Action Day "Freedom Not Fear" on October 11th. Our little local subsidiary here in Leipzig / Germany will support the planned demonstration in Berlin on that day, i.e. we're ...
Posted in AK-Vorrat, German | No Comments »
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
I regularily check the videos feed of TED, a platform for interesting, yet sometimes remarkable talks. A good friend once told me about this site and I'm always astonished how many mind-boggling individuals share their ideas and thinkings there. When I wrote about Saul Griffith and his website WattzOn! a ...
Posted in TED | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I've added a captcha plugin to this site (reCaptcha) to fight the huge amount of random URL comment spam which is unfortunately not captured by my askismet installation - sorry for the inconvenience.
At least if you type in the captcha correctly your comment should be instantly visible by now.
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Women are like software: If you're new to it, everything is exciting and awesome, all the fancy things, the bells and whistles you discover make you happy and feel better. As time moves on you're getting more used to it, try to master the software f.e. by using shortcuts, customize ...
Posted in Life | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Rob Weir has put up an interesting, yet very sarcastic blog about the future of OOXML. From the article:
[...] Another example of working on autopilot is the ad-hoc working group in SC34 [ISO subcommittee for document description and processing languages] looking at OOXML maintenance. Although it was heralded with much ...
Posted in OOXML | No Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
If you're a programmer and you're using a command line heavily, you've certainly come across a big nuisance in the usage of GNU's grep utility: The verbosity you need to exclude files from being searched, such as backup files (*~ or *#) or any kind of vcs inventory stupidity like ...
Posted in Coding, Free Software | 4 Comments »
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Remember this number - 7228.
This is the total amount of pages the final ISO version of Office Open XML (OOXML) will have - spread over four parts.
If I put this number in perspective with Microsoft's recent effor to "save our trees" (Link, IE-only...), I'm not sure if I should be ...
Posted in OOXML, Standards | No Comments »
