Tag: lang:en
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OOXML in the ISO’s limbo
ISO has a press release about the 4 countries (India, Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela) and their appeal against the OOXML standardization. The important part of it is this: According to the ISO/IEC rules, a document which is the subject of an appeal cannot be published as an ISO/IEC International Standard while the appeal is…
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Concha Y Toro Terrunyo Carménère 2005
Great wine. Recomended. By the way, 2005 is a great year for chilean wines.
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Unicode – Уникод – יוניקוד – يونيكود
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Iron Man and Programmers
The Iron Man movie is all about programmers. Being challenged and have to invent something that will make you get rid of hand work, the adventure of a project, to mold, test and debug, and the joy of having a prototype inspiring the next perfect design. Just don’t miss it. The metal man movie has…
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Cool Election-Related Google Maps AJAX Application
Isn’t this web app very neat? You must interact to feel it.
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Developers: ISO Standards Do Matter
Many developers are clamming that good specifications are more important than standards, specially now that the OOXML process opened to the public the dungeons of ISO processes and how the organization produces standards. This is a clear example on how ISO’s reputation is compromised. But unfortunately “ISO standards” are what governments tend to use. These…
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Norway doesn’t want OOXML (and I agree)
There was an ISO/IEC/JTC1 meeting in Oslo, Norway wednesday and the local community protested against OOXML and demanded more integrity in ISO’s processes. I couldn’t agree more. Photos by Martin Bekkelund. More info on Zak Greant’s blog.
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.5
This is my first post in the new WordPress 2.5. Upgrade was as easy as: $ cd avi.alkalay.net $ svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/ Everything worked without any changes, including my experimental content-optimized Plasma theme. The new WordPress has lots of improvements, specially in the administration part and I recommend it.
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OOXML: Open Letter to YES-voting and ABSTAIN-voting Countries
If there is one or more technical problems, the NB must disapprove the DIS. This is the rationale behind this idea.
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OOXML: Venezuela changed vote from YES to NO
Dear Mr. Kimura, Attached please find a letter from Mrs. María Teresa Saccucci, Standardization Manager of FONDONORMA (Venezuela) through which Venezuela wishes to modify its position on DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats from “Approval with comments” to “Disapproval with comments”.