Archive for January, 2007

As Closed as an Open Format Can Get

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Our friends at Microsoft have been busily getting the Office XML format to become an open standard. This is so that they don’t miss out on pitching to the large government and corporate clients that wish to remain ‘vendor independent’ for the sustainability of their businesses and organisations (and probably so that they don’t get [...]

How about someone sacks the head of SA Water and tells Rann to stick his dumb-ass water restrictions.

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Currently South Australia is under enforced ‘level 3′ water restrictions. Oh it’s just great – the government wants the community to dob other members of the community in for ‘water abuse’. Level 3 Water Restrictions are in force from 1st of January for most regions of South Australia. The restrictions will help conserve our nation’s [...]

Triple 30 inchers!

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Some photographer has put together a work station with triple 30 inch screens running off a Quad G5. Ross, you got pipped.

RIAA to try to sue AllofMP3 for US$1.65 trillion

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

*sigh* Despite that AllofMP3 are in Russia, and as well as operating legally in Russia, the RIAA are still going to sue them in a US court that has no jurisdiction over them. This is a tactic used by arseholes. They will sue in New York and despite the case being invalid, the judge will [...]