THE FESTIVAL NETWORK LLC
August 1-3, 2008. "The Newport Folk Festival is a multi-day, multi-stage music festival held at the historic International Tennis Hall of Fame and Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island."
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How to write a solid and stable WordPress plugin « Mark on WordPress
"The b5media tech team was having a discussion today about what criteria we use when reviewing a WordPress plugin for possible inclusion on one of our sites or across our network. It makes for a good list of what not to do (or not do) when writing a WordPress plugin, something that might be generally useful to plugin authors. These things won’t make your plugin good — they’ll just help make it secure and stable."
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Billionaires Back Antismoking Effort - NYTimes.com
"Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that they will spend $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking."
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macosxhints.com - 10.5: Move windows to Spaces via keyboard shortcut
"You do not have to view all Spaces to move windows between them (That is, by pressing F8, then using your mouse to drag and drop the desired window to the desire Space location). Nor do you have to drag to a screen edge, wait, then drop. If you like to use your keyboard, here's a fast way to do it."
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Magnetic guitar cables prevent pops, jack damage | Digital Noise: Music & Tech - CNET News.com
"They can't prevent you from stepping on your cord, but when you do there's no pop, no buzz, and you can reattach them very quickly. They're also excellent for guitarists who like to change axes between songs, but lack the roadies or foresight to do the busy work of turning on the bypass each time."
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To Starbucks, a Closing; To Newark, a Trauma - NYTimes.com
"The closings of hundreds of the coffee chain’s branches have certainly caused consternation in other places. But the cafe in downtown Newark is in some ways unique, a high-profile sign to all the people who fear the city that life is normal — if one accepts that part of “normal” is the ability to buy a slightly expensive cup of coffee and a scone in the morning."
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The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Anathem and Long Now
"Neal Stephenson’s new novel, ANATHEM, germinated in 01999 when Danny Hillis asked him and several other contributors to sketch out their ideas of what the Millennium Clock might look like. Stephenson tossed off a quick sketch and promptly forgot about it. Five years later however, when he was between projects, the idea came back to him, and he began to explore the possibility of building a novel around it. ANATHEM is the result, and will be released on September 9th, 02008."
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Open Source India: ISO/IEC and OOXML: The judge, the jury and the hangman
"Creating an alternate standards organization will be an exceedingly tough task, but standards are not an area where compromises can be tolerated. Standards govern our lives in a million different ways and the common man and woman deserve to have their standards created in an open, transparent manner that benefits everyone. Let me know what you think of the idea of creating an open standards organization for the benefit of the emerging economies."
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As Travel Costs Rise, More Meetings Go Virtual - NYTimes.com
"As travel costs rise and airlines cut service, companies large and small are rethinking the face-to-face meeting — and business travel as well. At the same time, the technology has matured to the point where it is often practical, affordable and more productive to move digital bits instead of bodies."
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ConsortiumInfo.org - Don't Forget UOF: Here Comes EIOffice 2009 (Updated)
"Long time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of history. That contender is called UOF - for Uniform Office Format, and it has been under development in China since 2002, although I first heard and wrote about it back in November of 2006. Last summer, UOF was adopted as a Chinese National Standard, and last Friday the first complete office suite based upon UOF was released. It's called Evermore Integrated Office 2009 (EIOffice 2009 for short), and here's the story."
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ISO is being challenged « Arnaud’s Open blog
"Like many people I’ve been appalled by the way ISO officials are trying to dismiss the appeals filed against the way OOXML was processed. Once more I’ve discovered a new aspect of the ISO process which has left me puzzled."
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Interfax China - Evermore launches first UOF-based office application
"The application integrates word, data sheet and presentation document processing into one piece of software. In addition to handling UOF standard files, the application is also compatible with Microsoft Office's OOXML (Office Open XML) standard and the international document standard ODF (Open Document Format), the PR manager said."
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NATO supports ODF open document format - News - heise open source UK
"NATO has included the International Standardization Organization's (ISO) certified Open Document Format (ODF) in its list of mandatory standards to promote interoperability. NATO's standards list includes Rich Text Format (RTF), extensible markup language (XML) and Office XP formats as requirements for the sharing of data."
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SAP Network Blogs
"Due to my past involvement in OpenOffice.org and ODF, I was curious to find out if and where the SAP products already support the ISO standard OpenDocument Format. I was happily surprised when I found out that ODF is already supported by the SAP List Viewer component (also known as the ABAP List Viewer or ALV), which is used many many times in all kinds of areas for displaying tabular data in a grid. The SAP List Viewer component allows exporting to ODF spreadsheet files in addition to Microsoft Excel files."
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Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop with VMware Tools
VMWare image containing Ubuntu
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Running Ubuntu as a Virtual OS in Mac OS X
"So let's look at the two ways you can run Linux. You can set up a Mac to dual boot, using Apple's Boot Camp system, which is included with Leopard 10.5 and available for download if you're still running Panther (10.4) from Apple's Web site, but somehow that seems clunky at best given the great virtualization capabilities on modern Apple hardware. As a result, I'm going to focus on getting Linux up and running simultaneously with running Mac OS X."
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WSJ - Business Technology : Why Most Online Communities Fail
"Businesses launching online communities repeat a series of blunders. First, they have a tendency to get seduced by bells and whistles and blow their online-community budget on technology. Moran suggests that businesses spend resources identifying and reaching out to potential community members instead of investing in software that makes predictions, or even social-networking technology."
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Stormy Peters lands on Gnome Foundation | The Register
"The Gnome Foundation yesterday announced that it has hired former Hewlett-Packard industry analyst Stormy Peters as its new executive director. ... Peters previously headed up HP’s open source strategy, policy and biz practices before becoming director of community and partner programs at OpenLogic."
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Some of von johin’s blues
Heard him last night during the opening of Gibson Island. Excellent.
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Mac OS continues to gain share | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com
"Just released second-quarter market share figures from Gartner show Apple shipments up 38 percent, to 8.5 percent of all units shipped, up from 6.4 percent a year ago. IDC had Apple's gains somewhat lower, at a 7.8 percent share, up from 6.2 percent a year earlier, but the trend is the same."
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