Monthly Archives: April 2009
Gearing up for openSUSE Summit
Some aspects of planning an event -- picking the date, the venue, figuring out the budget -- tend to be a bit tedious, but other parts are downright fun. Planning for the openSUSE Summit is getting fun, now. We just opened up the Call for Participation this week and we're looking for some good proposals [...]
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On Macs vs. PCs, again...
There are some topics that just won't die. Vi vs. Emacs, GNOME vs. KDE, Coke vs. Pepsi... and Apple vs. PCs.
And I can't help it, I just had to comment on this one.
It used to be an, sorry, Apples vs. Oranges comparison with PPC hardware vs. x86, but these days... Apple invites a lot of [...]
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HTML email: still evil after all these years?
This evening I had a short discussion about one of Gmail's new features: Image insertion. I was kind of curious about the feature, until I realized ugh, this requires HTMLized email. Yeah, I'm one of those people who still thinks that HTML email is, you know, wrong.
I'll cheerfully admit some of my anti-HTML email bias [...]
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Attacking Strunk & White
For all the word wonks in the audience, The Chronicle Review carries a scathing attack on The Elements of Style:
But despite the "Style" in the title, much in the book relates to grammar, and the advice on that topic does real damage. It is atrocious. Since today it provides just about all of the grammar [...]
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