So we finally managed to get some public release of Opera Unite out of the door. That was a really good thing, first because it’s a very cool idea and we had to let others play with it and make it evolve, and second because it was painful keeping a secret for so long ;-) [...]
Archives for Freedom
Kiva.org
Some weeks ago, Steve from Cranium Designs mentioned a website, Kiva.org. He linked to a very interesting video that showed how it works, and a couple of things really got me interested: The whole lending-money-to-people-who-need-it (and to whom banks will probably not lend) really attracted me. You help communities develop, and you don’t even lose [...]
Useful spam and Knol
The last days I have noticed that most of the spam I receive has some made up news as subject. I imagine it is to make people click on the messages. The point is that one of those messages was titled “Knol, the Wikipedia killer”, or something along those lines. I didn’t click on the [...]
Linux video editing and YouTube annotations
In my recent trip to Copenhagen, I recorded a small video of the subway (it’s really cool, because it’s completely automatic, it doesn’t have drivers or anything). I wanted to edit the video to remove people that were reflected on the window, so I wondered if I could do that on Linux. I imagined it [...]
Work-related news
Some time ago, Opera announced the Opera Web Standards Curriculum project. It’s a very interesting collection of articles that can be used as “curriculum” to learn about web development. It gets extra geeks points for using a Creative Commons license for the articles themselves. Even the W3C mentioned it :-) I just found some time [...]
Animal activists in jail for… no reason?
21 May 2008. Dawn in Austria. A lot of policemen enter in 23 different premises with guns, battering down doors, harassing the people inside. They take 10 people under arrest. Dangerous terrorists? War criminals? Drug dealers? Animal activists. There haven’t been any concrete charges yet_, so they are basically prisoners of conscienceconscience. Some of them [...]
Microsoft Office formats
I read that Office 2007 won’t support ISO’s OOXML. There are two things I find funny in there: After pushing for making OOXML a “standard format” (as in ISO), Microsoft is not implementing the standard spec after all (and won’t until some future version). Microsoft is going to support ODF (competing, open format). Of course, [...]
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