Good old Microsoft, the People’s Friend!
Computerworld reports today that the Seattle leviathan is to open its formats so that anybody can develop an application to read or write Office documents.
Well, not quite.
It’s all very well to release formats, but that’s of limited use if they’re still holding the patent.
Developing an […]
Former Zimbabwean cricketer Henry Olonga, who, with Rod, campaigned to stop the the Black Caps tour to his former homeland earlier this year, continues his campaign to highlight human rights abuses.
Rod and Henry may have failed in their efforts to stop the tour, but his visit caused many New Zealanders to sit up and take […]
We were told during the election and the government-forming negotiations that business was worred about the Greens getting anywhere near the levers of power.
Then today, more than a month later, we’re told that business confidence is at a 17-year low.
Anyone prepared to offer any explanations?
And while we’re at it, wouldn’t it be […]
In a post appropriately called Green Bashing, Dave Farrar last night links to and quotes a blogger who is claiming that Nicky Hagar blamed the Right for Rod’s death and links to and summarises another who lists various things Keith said decades ago.
I’m disappointed that DPF has chosen to point to such rubbishy […]
Billionaire Graeme Hart has finally confirmed the rumours that he will be dumping glass milk bottles in the South Island in favour of milk cartons.
Yesterday afternoon his company, Meadow Fresh, issued a press release trying to justify the environmental friendliness of this clearly profit-driven move. It said:
Leading New Zealand consumer dairy products company, New […]