jasonwryan

Recent notes, thoughts and saves...

Feb 9, 2010 11:15am

Norwegian government see OOXML as “unstable” and not fit for use http://j.mp/b9aB0K

Cool! Had my first mercurial commit accepted…

Feb 8, 2010 12:14pm
Feb 6, 2010 3:44pm

Remixing university textbooks: now _that_ is some sort of advanced pedagogy http://j.mp/9WUoqF

A great story of how content producers embrace the P2P business model: and thrive http://j.mp/9CzPIK

Feb 5, 2010 11:30pm
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The Upgrade:

74 packages, 204 MB and—apart from rebuilding cairo-lcd—not a hitch…

There are some terrific lessons for bureauracracies in this NYT piece on Microsoft’s creative destruction http://j.mp/a6tbJ6

Anyone in Wellington using Koha for their Library catalogue?

Why is it that the _only_ sustainable resource on this planet is morons?

Feb 4, 2010 8:18pm

And in other stunning news: after 2yrs, the first sub-loop unbundling will be in… Horokiwi. I can haz fazt internetz!

Just upgraded to the new version of dwm: 5 minutes & flawless. Killer software http://dwm.suckless.org/

Feb 3, 2010 5:32pm

This is great: photography and mathematical graphs combined: http://j.mp/apy77k

I should have googled, rather than used Granny’s search: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10623790

Adam Gifford has a terrific piece in the NZ Herald on Albany High’s open source approach (sadly, not online…)

Concepting? I’m coining a term: ‘moronizing’ - using nouns as verbs to look creative or intelligent…

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