Top 10 3D sidewalk drawings

Here they are and they are awesome!

Bmw started it...

Advertisment war :D

Eben Moglen Keynote

Here is a video recording of Eben Moglen's keynote address given at Plone Conference 2006. It is long, around 65 minutes, but it is certainly worth watching in my opinion.

Support the Commons!

Here is my christmas wish: Everyone, please support Creative Commons!

Microsoft Open XML - a one-way standard?

It will be interesting to see how many competing implementations of MS Open XML we're going to see in the future. Since the specification is more than 6000 pages long it will be a huge task to implement. Some estimates about how long it will take can be found in this blog post by Andrew Shebanow.

That isn't all though, there are other problems with the format.

Microsoft lobbying in action...

How to alienate your government customers 101?

It is fascinating how they far they went in trying to get the changes they wanted. It is also shows how important they think this is. Of course, since their office suite is one of their major cash cows, it is not surprising that they think it is important, but their hardball tactics made other peoples lives miserable. Money rules I guess...