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This hospital is making fun of charity funds
The title of this piece is an old French saying. You will soon understand what it means. Forget a moment about the Microsoft-Yahoo stories. They’re important, although even the best take on them, in my opinion, still largely misses one important element of the proposed deal: Namely, that such an acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft would not take those two very far. However, Microsoft could use the only outstanding asset of the deal to disseminate its own proprietary technologies such as Silverlight, CLR, WP/F and everything .NET . Enough said for the moment.
The OOXML bunch is boringly disappointing
And I’m not afraid to write it again: What are you guys think you’re doing? Level up the fight, I’m yawning!
One fast track. Two investigations. 3522 answers. Still no convergence….
The title really says it all: The Ecma applies for a fast-track procedure at the beginning of 2007; despite objections, it’s going through the process with a razor-thin margin. Remember the fast-track proceedings are about checking major flaws in the specification beforehand. Nothing comes out of it, but when it goes through examination by the countries, thousands of comments, most of them pointing out to alleged issues, hundreds of them actually highlighting major flaws in OOXML, are being produced and published.
Winter Links
This is winter, the winter that most of my french audience has come to dislike: In Paris, snow is rare, because of pollution and a specific geographical situation. In a way, it’s a bit like Portland, OR. where the climate is oceanic enough to block snowing. Add to this the fact that Paris is geographically a large meadow surrounded by plateaus and high hills, and you will get a “dirty winter”.
Some interesting figures, facts, and links
Today, we’re approaching Sunday and to some on this earth, this day is referred to as the Day of the Lord. (And it does not mean the Couch Potatoes’ Day, please). This is why I shall refrain to talk about OOXML . To some others, Friday and Staurday are also the Lord’s Day, so I’m also inclined to be nice towards others and stop any worries letting me go down. Some links of interest for this week-end can be found below:
