SwissMiss: Canvas Water Bucket
China says it will meet Dalai Lama’s representative – International Herald Tribune
This sounds like good news.
Is China getting the message?
China says it will meet Dalai Lama’s representative – International Herald Tribune
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Mugabe rival ‘clear victor’
Finally, the BBC news reports that Mugabe rival was the ‘clear victor’ of the ellections. Something we allready knew.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Developers question Mesh openness
As many of us use more devices/computers than one, this looks like a good development. I will try and sign up to the Beta.
2006 Burgers Zoo
The Olympic flame
Today the Olympic flame was shown in Paris. The flame was extinguished three times before it was rushed to the relay’s endpoint [link to BBC article].
I don’t think it will change the method of economic imperialism used by the Chinese government. Maybe it will make them more careful but it won’t change them.
Vaseline
Just something I shot in Saas-Fee.
McLaren Bashing?
Quote for ITV Formula 1 website:
Under-fire FIA president Max Mosley has called an extraordinary general meeting of the sport’s governing body to discuss the fall-out from the recent allegations about his private life.
I don’t think this coincidence. This is payback time, not by McLaren but by all the other big shots behind the scene.
Microsoft Office OpenXML standard accepted
Microsoft Office OpenXML has been accepted as ISO standard. Some countries didn’t agree among which; China, Iran, India, South Africa, Brazile and Canada. The first three could be expected. The last three are a supprise to me.
The question is if the ISO acceptance is going to be accepted by e.g. Governments who want to move to an open office standard. If not, than this is going to be the end of the ISO standard.
New browser on the block
I saw an entry on Robert Scoble’s blog about a new browser by AT&T called Pogo.
You would ask, why on earth do we need a new browser if we already have, IE6, IE7, IE8, FireFox 2 and 3, Safari, Opera, …. Well, maybe we need a new browser which is compliant with all the standards. Non of the mentioned above are. Unfortunately there is no mention weather Pogo is or will be.
A limited Beta version of Pogo is available on their website. You have to try it but at least look at the demo because it really has some nice features which undoubtedly will be taken over by the other browser flavors. Much of the visualization you find in Windows Vista en OS-X have been incorporated. It look really cool.
Fitna the movie (3)
The chairman of the organisation VNO-NCW, Bernard Wientjes, has said in an interview that any cost (loss of revenue) due to the publication of “Fitna the movie” should be paid by Geert Wilders. He actually is going to look into this and see if this is possible.
Silly man!