December 2009

U.S. Postage Stamps of 1959: A View from 50 Years Later

December 30, 2009

What We Commemorate Commemorative stamps memorialize recently-deceased presidents, mark important anniversaries, acknowledge national institutions, boast of engineering, scientific and artistic achievements and celebrate victory in war and in peace.  Historically, U.S. stamps have portrayed the country as we like to imagine it is, or was. If history is written by the victors, then that portion [...]

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Planned Migration of An Antic Disposition

December 16, 2009

Sometime over the next two weeks I’ll be migrating An Antic Disposition over to WordPress, introducing a new visual theme, and relocating to a new hosting company.  This will allow some additional capabilities that I look forward to enabling down the road. My plan is to preserve all of the comments during the migration, not [...]

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The Relevancy of ODF 1.0

December 14, 2009

By the time you read this (actually probably by the time I finish writing this post) a ballot approving the Public Review Draft of ODF 1.2, Part 1 will have passed.  Part 1 is the largest of the three parts of ODF 1.2, and reaching a Public Review Draft status is a major accomplishment.  Expect [...]

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