One would think that the so-called Patriot Act, or the secret wiretapping leaves things to wish for in the US. In any case – given this and similar concepts around the world – Sweden seems to have felt left out (what do I know), so Ingvar Åkesson helped to write a law for giving FRA [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Swedish wiretapping war
Posted in fra, politics, surveillance, sweden, wiretapping on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ubuntu wallpaper
Posted in linux, ubuntu, wallpaper on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the classical Ubuntu logo in 3D (interestingly provided by the alias ilovewindows 8) – click on the link for more of his artwork).
The (still) slow fast-track of OOXML
Posted in ecma, iso, odf, ooxml on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some political standards processes can be curiously slow. ODF 1.0, going through a fast-track procedure (rubberstamp, if you will), spent about a year in ISO, from submission to publication – and that with a strong consensus backing it, as well as (as far as I can tell) a truly open and thorough process preceding it [...]
