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, … [Continue reading] about Twitter 2010 by the Numbers
It is that time of the year again when I look back at the commemorative postage stamps of 50-years ago. This year we look at the stamps of 1960, a new decade. Stamps issued then celebrated current events as well as 50th and 100th … [Continue reading] about U.S. Postage Stamps of 1960
I've received a few questions about how to read/write ODF documents from Microsoft Office. I looked around and did not find a comprehensive Microsoft web page on this topic, so I'm putting together this page as a reference for best practices on how … [Continue reading] about Microsoft Office and ODF: Best Practices
(You should click the above time line to get a larger, more readable version). Before we can answer the question of the first or earliest Christmas carol, we need to deal with some preliminary questions. What is a carol? What is a Christmas … [Continue reading] about What is the Earliest (First) Christmas Carol?
The OASIS ODF Technical Committee voted a couple of weeks ago to create a new subcommittee, on "Advanced Document Collaboration". Robin LaFontaine, from DeltaXML will chair the subcommittee. Since the entire ODF TC is quite large now (almost 20 … [Continue reading] about ODF TC Creates Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee