Posted on 3/5/2008, 2:49 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Stewart (Melbourne, Australia) and I (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) are featured in LugRadio Live! USA 2008. Why? We were one of the few people that travelled far enough to get to LugRadio Live.
27:30-27:40 in case you want to fast forward. “I don’t even know where Malaysia is!” exclaims someone on LugRadio. Definitely, grab the show, Season 5, Episode 16.
In the end we all get gifts… an Ubuntu book which I will eventually read.
For me, its an interesting change, writing “Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia” on things.
Posted on 2/5/2008, 3:52 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
I’m headed to the OpenSolaris Developers Summit right now.
After that, I’ll be at CommunityOne, with the rest of the MySQL team. Just check out the schedule (its in PDF format though). Its truly packed, so if you’ve not signed up to come, do so, immediately. I’m also particularly interested in participating in the RedMonk Unconference. All in all, I think CommunityOne looks like it would be well suited for a week-long event, rather than a day-long event – so many places to be, so little time!
And after that, JavaOne! Its going to be packed all week long, but the good news is that I’ll be in downtown San Francisco for most of it.
Expect plenty of notes soon.
Technorati Tags: opensolaris, communityone, javaone, opensolaris summit, developers
Posted on 30/4/2008, 4:34 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
While I am not a Jeff Waugh apologist (disclaimer: he’s a friend of mine, whom I met through the open source community), I find this kind of journalism, simply appalling.
Five whole pages over the running of a Planet? With pulling out details from the archives of lists? It clearly looks like Sam Varghese is a little bored these days. And iTWire, which is on my “daily” to read list, is on the verge of being removed. Its becoming drivel.
If Jeff was really doing a bad job, and this is after all the open source world, where is the fork of Planet GNOME?
P/S: For added value, read the comments.
Posted on 27/4/2008, 7:53 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
In an interesting twist (interesting for Microsoft and their OOXML apologists), about a month ago, MAMPU, the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit, decided that they were going to go OpenOffice.org and go ODF, and dump Microsoft Office by year-end 2008. This made its round around news sites, and everyone was naturally talking about it.
Now, you can hold them to their word, as they update a Wiki page, informing you about how many agencies are moving to OpenOffice.org. Big wins, once all of the Malaysian government related agencies are on OpenOffice.org (open source software in general). Again, read OpenOffice.org and ODF Adoption!
As a current Malaysian tax payer, I wouldn’t want the government misappropriating money, on proprietary software.
One interesting bit from that? OpenOffice.org being taught in matriculation colleges (11 currently), as lecturers are trained to deliver it to their students. It all starts in schools, though, but this is much better than what was previously around.
Go OpenOffice.org! Go ODF!
Technorati Tags: openoffice.org, odf, mampu, migration
Posted on 23/4/2008, 8:47 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Dunno if this is a new feature, but Facebook has integrated instant messaging (IM) to folk that are on Facebook. This is like Google doing their Google Talk chats inside GMail. More and more reason why the web browser replaces the traditional desktop application?
Facebook IMDo I like being able to only talk to folk that are my friends? Naturally. One wonders though why we have so many different identities, on different services. The one that consolidates them all, is the one that enables ease of use, is the one that will “win”.
Me? I’m old fashioned. I like my IM client. I like my email client. All desktop clients I might add. The kids of today? They’re happy with everything web-based. Besides, the concept of syncing stuff offline is slowly becoming more popular with web-based applications, so maybe eventually, I too might like these new web applications…
Technorati Tags: web, communications, IM, facebook, in-browser, browser experience, history, thoughts
Posted on 21/4/2008, 7:36 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
I read the newspapers on the plane yesterday, it was the Sunday New Straits Times. I suddenly realised, that it provided dated news. Dated how?
I had already read about the Malaysian Dreamgirl from various blogs I follow in Google Reader. I had also already read about the Nokia challenge with regards to their N82 and using the GPS and so on. Heck, I had even seen the pictures and more.
Why does anyone bother with the drivel that is printed media? Its all one big propaganda machine for the ruling party of the day (albeit weakened).
Media might still matter in countries where freedom of media expression exists (Australia, the United States, etc.), but in nations where media expression is stifled, and the Internet is uncensored, old media is dead.
Bold statement? I have a feeling I’m somehow right though.
