January 11, 2011
I noticed a curious argument in Jonathan Corbet’s LWN article “Supporting OOXML in LibreOffice” (behind a pay wall). Why should we support OOXML? …as has been pointed out in the discussion, Microsoft will, someday, phase out support for its (equally proprietary) DOC format, leaving OOXML as the only real option for document interchange. There appears [...]
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January 2, 2011
Throughout 2010, I recorded Twitter messages (tweets) from Twitter’s “public timeline“. I took these snapshots every two minutes, around the clock. At the end of the year now have 4,973,728 tweets. The first message, at 12:00:08 EST January 1st, 2010, was: “2009 will be remembered at [sic] the year the music died. Michael left us [...]
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