Ads for Livejournal, OpenOffice.org Tetum, Cory Doctorow, Antimonopoly, Taxing Times, Ditmar, Geoff
Livejournal is going to have ads. I'm sure I remember Six Apart saying they wouldn't do this when they bought it. For my part, I've joined ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
no_lj_ads. Their proposal is quite sound; ads for those who want them; noone else.
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Six Apart have changed their records. They had a contract which said no ads. Then they changed that to 'principles'.
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I have just put a proposal to OpenOffice.org to establish a project for translation into Tetum. I think this is a very worthwhile project given that is the majority and official language of Timor Leste. Given my current work with, god help me, MS-SQL Server and MS-Access databases I can see myself contributing somewhat to the development of OpenOffice.org Base this year as well. I'm also interested in seeing if OOBase and MySQL can talk to each other better.
Was fortunate enough to see Cory Doctorow this week with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya, imajica_lj and claudine_c. Also managed to exchange brief conversation with lokicarbis. Cory's presentation was on why closed-source and proprietory formats for entertainment were both dangerous for users and bad business. It made a lot of sense, albeit he could be a little cavalier with his history when it was not central to his point.
This Friday's entertainment will be an evening of Antimonopoly at Prosper Australia. Even when I'm having fun and politics at the same time gaming gets involved. Oh, I should point out they've formally employed me as well to launch a campaign among academics and the general public for (fairer, simpler, efficient, productive) tax reform. On a related topic I finished my tax and saw my accountant yesterday. All as expected; I owe the Australian government a modest amount (a few thousand).
Congratulations are due tovaleskah1 whose SF/fantasy journal Ticondero has won a Ditmar for the past year. My decision to write for it was evidently well-timed. I have just sent off my fourth review for the year (Shade's Children by Garth Nix) to said journal.
no_lj_ads. Their proposal is quite sound; ads for those who want them; noone else.EDIT
Six Apart have changed their records. They had a contract which said no ads. Then they changed that to 'principles'.
End Edit
I have just put a proposal to OpenOffice.org to establish a project for translation into Tetum. I think this is a very worthwhile project given that is the majority and official language of Timor Leste. Given my current work with, god help me, MS-SQL Server and MS-Access databases I can see myself contributing somewhat to the development of OpenOffice.org Base this year as well. I'm also interested in seeing if OOBase and MySQL can talk to each other better.
Was fortunate enough to see Cory Doctorow this week with
caseopaya, imajica_lj and claudine_c. Also managed to exchange brief conversation with lokicarbis. Cory's presentation was on why closed-source and proprietory formats for entertainment were both dangerous for users and bad business. It made a lot of sense, albeit he could be a little cavalier with his history when it was not central to his point.This Friday's entertainment will be an evening of Antimonopoly at Prosper Australia. Even when I'm having fun and politics at the same time gaming gets involved. Oh, I should point out they've formally employed me as well to launch a campaign among academics and the general public for (fairer, simpler, efficient, productive) tax reform. On a related topic I finished my tax and saw my accountant yesterday. All as expected; I owe the Australian government a modest amount (a few thousand).
Congratulations are due to
valeskah1 whose SF/fantasy journal Ticondero has won a Ditmar for the past year. My decision to write for it was evidently well-timed. I have just sent off my fourth review for the year (Shade's Children by Garth Nix) to said journal.