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Log: Planet run at Fri Apr 9 01:00:13 CEST 2010 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.3153&r2=1.3154 Delta lines: +34 -38 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-04-08 17:00:33+0000 1.3153 +++ atom.xml 2010-04-08 23:00:32+0000 1.3154 @@ -5,9 +5,29 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2010-04-08T17:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-08T23:00:29+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry> + <title type="html">Yet another HDD crash....</title> + <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490</id> + <updated>2010-04-08T16:10:47+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple&#x2019;s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns&#x2019; _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross&#x2019; latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Mi&#x00e9;ville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken&#x2019;s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life &amp; times, though I find myself more fixed by the present&#x2019;s formation of the future and by the past&#x2019;s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content> + <author> + <name>oulipo</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> + <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> + <updated>2010-04-08T23:00:20+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Easter Links</title> <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/04/04/easter-links-2/"/> @@ -125,7 +145,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - 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<updated>2010-04-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-08T23:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -205,7 +225,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2010-04-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-08T23:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -225,7 +245,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2010-04-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-08T23:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -245,7 +265,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - 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<updated>2010-04-01T23:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-04-08T23:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -487,28 +507,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Conspiracy? afraid not</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/17/conspiracy-afraid-not/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=883</id> - <updated>2010-03-17T10:22:48+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Since I <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=65821">made public my decision not to stand again</a> for the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org. Community Council</a> I&#8217;ve had a flurry of emails from people asking what the &#8216;real&#8217; reason is: is it a consequence of the Oracle purchase of Sun Microsystems? and I disillusioned with the whole Council process? have I been offered a job by Microsoft?</p> -<p>The answer is of course much simpler than the conspiracy theorists would like. Since taking early retirement last November I have &#8211; ironically &#8211; had even less time than before to spend on OpenOffice.org business. I missed the last Community Council meeting, and I&#8217;m going to miss the next two, and I don&#8217;t really see things improving in the near future. It wasn&#8217;t an easy decision to make, but it seemed only right to make way for someone who has sufficient bandwidth to do the job properly.</p> -<p>And for the conspiracy theorists: any merger / acquisition process makes life difficult for the employees of the target company. The Sun Microsystems team in Hamburg were and are major contributors to OpenOffice.org. It&#8217;s very hard to participate fully in an open-source community when there are severe regulatory pressures to prevent &#8216;leaks&#8217; of information. There&#8217;s also a natural human tendency to keep your head down and your mouth shut when you&#8217;re not sure what&#8217;s going to happen to your job.</p> -<p>Am I disillusioned? The Community Council is where the Sunnies and the volunteers come together from a governance perspective, so it&#8217;s not surprising that it&#8217;s been tough going there recently. I&#8217;m optimistic that with the right people on board, the Community Council can serve the community well. A steady influx of new blood is essential for that to happen &#8211; serving successive terms should be an exception rather than a rule.</p> -<p>What about Oracle? IMHO IT vendors &#8211; especially software vendors &#8211; are a bunch of shysters, hucksters, pimps, and pushers earning ridiculous fees peddling the impossible to the ignorant. Among this slough of mendacity, Sun Microsystems in my experience stood out as a beacon of comparative probity. Let&#8217;s hope the ex-Sunnies keep their core values as they are absorbed into their new corporate structures.</p> -<p>And no, I haven&#8217;t been offered a job by Microsoft.</p></content> - <author> - <name>John McCreesh</name> - <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-04-08T17:00:14+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.3160&r2=1.3161 Delta lines: +16 -21 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-04-08 17:00:34+0000 1.3160 +++ index.html 2010-04-08 23:00:32+0000 1.3161 @@ -37,8 +37,23 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 08, 2010 05:00 PM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 08, 2010 11:00 PM CET</em></p> +<h2>April 08, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> +Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html";> +Yet another HDD crash....</a> +</h3> +<p> +I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple’s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns’ _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross’ latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Miéville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken’s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life & times, though I find myself more fixed by the present’s formation of the future and by the past’s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; alt="" /></div></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at April 08, 2010 04:10 PM CEST</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>April 04, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> @@ -419,26 +434,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>March 17, 2010</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> -John McCreesh</a> : -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/17/conspiracy-afraid-not/";> -Conspiracy? afraid not</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Since I <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=65821";>made public my decision not to stand again</a> for the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org. Community Council</a> I’ve had a flurry of emails from people asking what the ‘real’ reason is: is it a consequence of the Oracle purchase of Sun Microsystems? and I disillusioned with the whole Council process? have I been offered a job by Microsoft?</p> -<p>The answer is of course much simpler than the conspiracy theorists would like. Since taking early retirement last November I have – ironically – had even less time than before to spend on OpenOffice.org business. I missed the last Community Council meeting, and I’m going to miss the next two, and I don’t really see things improving in the near future. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, but it seemed only right to make way for someone who has sufficient bandwidth to do the job properly.</p> -<p>And for the conspiracy theorists: any merger / acquisition process makes life difficult for the employees of the target company. The Sun Microsystems team in Hamburg were and are major contributors to OpenOffice.org. It’s very hard to participate fully in an open-source community when there are severe regulatory pressures to prevent ‘leaks’ of information. There’s also a natural human tendency to keep your head down and your mouth shut when you’re not sure what’s going to happen to your job.</p> -<p>Am I disillusioned? The Community Council is where the Sunnies and the volunteers come together from a governance perspective, so it’s not surprising that it’s been tough going there recently. I’m optimistic that with the right people on board, the Community Council can serve the community well. A steady influx of new blood is essential for that to happen – serving successive terms should be an exception rather than a rule.</p> -<p>What about Oracle? IMHO IT vendors – especially software vendors – are a bunch of shysters, hucksters, pimps, and pushers earning ridiculous fees peddling the impossible to the ignorant. Among this slough of mendacity, Sun Microsystems in my experience stood out as a beacon of comparative probity. Let’s hope the ex-Sunnies keep their core values as they are absorbed into their new corporate structures.</p> -<p>And no, I haven’t been offered a job by Microsoft.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/17/conspiracy-afraid-not/";>by John at March 17, 2010 10:22 AM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.3153&r2=1.3154 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-04-08 17:00:35+0000 1.3153 +++ opml.xml 2010-04-08 23:00:33+0000 1.3154 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:00:26 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:00:30 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.974&r2=1.975 Delta lines: +8 -12 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-04-05 13:31:15+0000 1.974 +++ rss10.xml 2010-04-08 23:00:33+0000 1.975 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=166"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/30052129"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/30052053"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4d2097ac83482eef" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-2217443470875539030" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/18/openofficeorg-project-of-the-month-the-irish-community/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=883"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490"> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Yet another HDD crash....</title> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html</link> + <content:encoded>I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple&#x2019;s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns&#x2019; _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross&#x2019; latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Mi&#x00e9;ville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken&#x2019;s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life &amp; times, though I find myself more fixed by the present&#x2019;s formation of the future and by the past&#x2019;s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-04-08T16:10:47+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=166";> <title>Charles Schulz: Easter Links</title> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/04/04/easter-links-2/</link> @@ -271,16 +278,5 @@ </p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2010-03-18T10:37:14+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=883";> - <title>John McCreesh: Conspiracy? afraid not</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/17/conspiracy-afraid-not/</link> - <content:encoded><p>Since I <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=65821">made public my decision not to stand again</a> for the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org. Community Council</a> I&#8217;ve had a flurry of emails from people asking what the &#8216;real&#8217; reason is: is it a consequence of the Oracle purchase of Sun Microsystems? and I disillusioned with the whole Council process? have I been offered a job by Microsoft?</p> -<p>The answer is of course much simpler than the conspiracy theorists would like. Since taking early retirement last November I have &#8211; ironically &#8211; had even less time than before to spend on OpenOffice.org business. I missed the last Community Council meeting, and I&#8217;m going to miss the next two, and I don&#8217;t really see things improving in the near future. It wasn&#8217;t an easy decision to make, but it seemed only right to make way for someone who has sufficient bandwidth to do the job properly.</p> -<p>And for the conspiracy theorists: any merger / acquisition process makes life difficult for the employees of the target company. The Sun Microsystems team in Hamburg were and are major contributors to OpenOffice.org. It&#8217;s very hard to participate fully in an open-source community when there are severe regulatory pressures to prevent &#8216;leaks&#8217; of information. There&#8217;s also a natural human tendency to keep your head down and your mouth shut when you&#8217;re not sure what&#8217;s going to happen to your job.</p> -<p>Am I disillusioned? The Community Council is where the Sunnies and the volunteers come together from a governance perspective, so it&#8217;s not surprising that it&#8217;s been tough going there recently. I&#8217;m optimistic that with the right people on board, the Community Council can serve the community well. A steady influx of new blood is essential for that to happen &#8211; serving successive terms should be an exception rather than a rule.</p> -<p>What about Oracle? IMHO IT vendors &#8211; especially software vendors &#8211; are a bunch of shysters, hucksters, pimps, and pushers earning ridiculous fees peddling the impossible to the ignorant. Among this slough of mendacity, Sun Microsystems in my experience stood out as a beacon of comparative probity. Let&#8217;s hope the ex-Sunnies keep their core values as they are absorbed into their new corporate structures.</p> -<p>And no, I haven&#8217;t been offered a job by Microsoft.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-03-17T10:22:48+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.974&r2=1.975 Delta lines: +8 -12 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-04-05 13:31:15+0000 1.974 +++ rss20.xml 2010-04-08 23:00:33+0000 1.975 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Yet another HDD crash....</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6317826453723897490</guid> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/04/yet-another-hdd-crash.html</link> + <description>I guess it must have been last year but maybe it was longer ago than that. But my MacBook Pro (July 2007) crashed again, to the point where the HD was unreadable. Fortunately, I use Apple&#x2019;s Time Machine to guard against this, uhm--surely not--tactical obsolescence, so was able to reinstall everything. But as I had a) lost my ethernet capability (it died in smoke, and I am not kidding: my friend Charles recorded it for immediate posterity) and b) had, to save space, chosen--foolishly--*not* to back up my applications, I had to spend the Friday (death) and weekend following, resurrecting everything bit by bit from the harbours in the sky where these things lurk. By Sunday the 5th of April, all the bits were more or less there, some older, some newer, some different but all possessed of the precious halo new life after the fact of loss gives.<br /><br />But it meant a forced weekend of no work, no writing, but a lot of reading on my so-far-faithful iPhone. My latest reads: Adrian Johns&#x2019; _Piracy, the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates_ (Chicago, UoChicago, 2010; Kindle eBook), but also Charles Stross&#x2019; latest (#6 in the Merchant Princes Wars), plus, concurrently, the quite uninteresting David Edelman _Infoquake_, and the far more captivating but also uneven Mi&#x00e9;ville _The City and the City_, as well as the relentlessly dreary _Drood_ by Simmons. The latter, a *long* take on Dicken&#x2019;s wildly weird Mystery of Edwin Drood (a right companion to the magnificent _Our Mutual Friend_), seems to add what is not needed to a narrative whose sole interest lies in the historical, not the fictive. Then again, my wife is a Victorianist, and inter alia, her speciality includes Dickens, so by osmosis (and some study done during my own literary days getting my PhD at Berkeley), I have come to some understanding of Dickens and am fascinated by his life &amp; times, though I find myself more fixed by the present&#x2019;s formation of the future and by the past&#x2019;s comprehension of the present, than by the Victorian past itself. <br /><br />(And of course, I have often enjoyed reading steampunk, but like all such things, quality depends less on formal genre adherence and more on the nature of the story and its writing itself: quality is the pleasure one derives from the text, and that pleasure has some relation to genre but it is not identical to it.)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6317826453723897490?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:10:47 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>Charles Schulz: Easter Links</title> <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=166</guid> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/04/04/easter-links-2/</link> @@ -259,18 +267,6 @@ </p></description> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:37:14 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: Conspiracy? afraid not</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=883</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/17/conspiracy-afraid-not/</link> - <description><p>Since I <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=65821">made public my decision not to stand again</a> for the <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org. Community Council</a> I&#8217;ve had a flurry of emails from people asking what the &#8216;real&#8217; reason is: is it a consequence of the Oracle purchase of Sun Microsystems? and I disillusioned with the whole Council process? have I been offered a job by Microsoft?</p> -<p>The answer is of course much simpler than the conspiracy theorists would like. Since taking early retirement last November I have &#8211; ironically &#8211; had even less time than before to spend on OpenOffice.org business. I missed the last Community Council meeting, and I&#8217;m going to miss the next two, and I don&#8217;t really see things improving in the near future. It wasn&#8217;t an easy decision to make, but it seemed only right to make way for someone who has sufficient bandwidth to do the job properly.</p> -<p>And for the conspiracy theorists: any merger / acquisition process makes life difficult for the employees of the target company. The Sun Microsystems team in Hamburg were and are major contributors to OpenOffice.org. It&#8217;s very hard to participate fully in an open-source community when there are severe regulatory pressures to prevent &#8216;leaks&#8217; of information. There&#8217;s also a natural human tendency to keep your head down and your mouth shut when you&#8217;re not sure what&#8217;s going to happen to your job.</p> -<p>Am I disillusioned? The Community Council is where the Sunnies and the volunteers come together from a governance perspective, so it&#8217;s not surprising that it&#8217;s been tough going there recently. I&#8217;m optimistic that with the right people on board, the Community Council can serve the community well. A steady influx of new blood is essential for that to happen &#8211; serving successive terms should be an exception rather than a rule.</p> -<p>What about Oracle? IMHO IT vendors &#8211; especially software vendors &#8211; are a bunch of shysters, hucksters, pimps, and pushers earning ridiculous fees peddling the impossible to the ignorant. Among this slough of mendacity, Sun Microsystems in my experience stood out as a beacon of comparative probity. Let&#8217;s hope the ex-Sunnies keep their core values as they are absorbed into their new corporate structures.</p> -<p>And no, I haven&#8217;t been offered a job by Microsoft.</p></description> - <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:22:48 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
