OLPC and innovation
I particularly like this article that links up Sir Sinclair of the Sinclair ZX80 fame with the OLPC project. I
Month: July 2007
Illumio and Google Desktop Search
Watching a podcast about Illumio, triggered some interesting ideas. The fact that their tool allows for anyone to pose a
Amazing architecture – dynamic building in Dubai
If this proposed dynamic building is indeed being built in Dubai, kudos to them! In a word, awesome!
The real reason for MS’s ooxml push
I cannot help but lean towards agreeing with this article by Joe Wilcox. It is clearly the game plan of
What else is broken in ooxml?
While the hard work continues at the various national bodies to plough through the 6000+ page ooxml document, here is
Is this for real?
Was good weekend read nonetheless!
Human animation
Human pixelation anyone?
last.fm
Got last.fm compiled and running on my F6 machine. Looks like embedding in the blog only lets the audio to
Sweet!
I love this statement that essentially says that what MS thought was a loophole is now permanently plugged with GPLv3.
Is there an ethical issue?
I have been bothered by an ethical issue. I blogged about how a commercial company tried to influence a publicly
Simple tool to download youtube videos
Thanks to Wolfgang, this simple shell script allows you do download the youtube videos for offline viewing.
My OpEd in Digital Life
The following was sent to Digital Life (an Tuesday insert into the Straits Times). Bold and italicized word/lines was edited