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Inauguration streamed in Silverlight and captured in PhotoSynth

Chris Pendleton notes a CNN/Microsoft collaboration to capture the moment Obama takes the oath ’s inauguration In partnership with Microsoft, CNN has published “The Moment” a Photosynth experience that allows users to upload photos during the inauguration of President Barack Obama which will then...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 01-19-2009
OpenOffice.Org’s “Renaissance” project

Interesting to see OpenOffice.Org’s “ Renaissance Project ” kick off this week. As they explain (my highlighting):- Current Situation As you all know OpenOffice.org users complain about its cumbersome and outdated graphical user interface GUI). A great deal of functionality is hidden in many overstuffed...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 12-02-2008
Look what they've done to Brains ...

He's been drenched (try the game too) [YouTube:e2aRDacKANs]

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 05-14-2008
Paul Graham's "how to disagree"

I've seen several references today to Paul Graham's " How to Disagree " which proposes a "disagreement hierarchy":- Paul says If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? and closes But the greatest benefit of disagreeing well is not...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 04-01-2008
If ...

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 03-31-2008
Computerworld: Standards NZ claims Geneva success

The Rashomon effect notwithstanding, the post Geneva consensus continues to grow ... Standards New Zealand says its delegation to an international meeting in Geneva to discuss issues around Microsoft's Office Open XML format has had some success. The local standards body says the delegation was successful...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 03-06-2008
The "Rashomon effect"

Alex Brown points to a post by his wife , Sarah Annes Brown , that gives a spouse's perspective on the whole OpenXML circus. Sarah ends her post with a comment that "... the blogosphere’s latest version(s) of [OOXML] events – makes Rashoman seem very straightforward." I'd never heard of Rashoman, a film...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 03-05-2008
Isn't it high time someone got negative about negativity?

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 01-31-2008
Digging for the truth?

I saw a quote from one of my colleagues, Microsoft Australia's National Technology Officer, highlighted on Groklaw's "News Picks" with the following annotation from the diva herself:- [PJ: MS FUD-o-meter off the scale here. ODF can be structured to do anything you want. Microsoft didn't do that. Instead...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 01-29-2008
Broadband redundancy

I took Sky up on their offer of a free 2Mb broadband service for a one-off activation fee of £40. I was impressed by Sky’s customer service – they answer the phone in less time than it takes to get through BT’s automated menu and were very efficient in taking my order. The Sky...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 01-31-2007

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