ha!, mis-guiding media

the very-recently posted link on “Open XML” is not the open office ODF that i confused it for but the MIscrosoft’s OOXML

Here’s a better link -
India to vote against Microsoft’s OXML, against wishes of IT cos
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/India_to_vote_against_Microsofts_OXML/articleshow/2885776.cms

wonder how better. if the previous one took a Microsoft’s perspective (okay recent troubles in management is no excuse) this one only talks about two other companies that would prefer Microsoft’s OOXML. what about all the thousand small companies  and future innovators and the academia and and the general public, the future users. Sad.

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a few ppl might jump in and mention the TOI quality showing. it’s not that. what’s CNET doing. it’s not even about that. If information is power, what’s the validation for it?

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answering the few “potential” statements- other media players won’t even probably give a damn. they’ll probably have news tomo of the prime minister celebrating holi and that in tamil nadu there was joy all over. haha. it’ll never cover this. probably not even when OOXML is voted out, or in .

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okay, fine. what really matters?  ( in the universal namespace
worth a thought.

Tags: microsoft, media

Hey, look

Look where. look out.

today, a silent yet eventful Friday. happens to be holi. and several other festivals co-incidentally. also, it rained here. lightly.

the day started with a rather “spontaneous” march to the Director’s house at 1 am in the morning – about 150 ppl walking for a cause – “Secure basic needs of living”. Anyway, let’s see if http://thenitknumbskulls.wordpress.com/ will cover it. or maybe someone else. (btw, a bloggers meet being planned. let’s see how it does if it happens)

lots of news going around. several items came up today.

From Taslima to Tibet, India proves Chicken – Jug Suraiya

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/From_Taslima_to_Tibet_India_proves_chicken/articleshow/2885952.cms

Indian government’s failure to protect Indian workers – forced Indian laborers at US
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=06d72387-b8d1-49f8-83ef-f491b394b31c&ParentID=ff3b865f-8ded-400a-a730-221f23261b2a&&Headline=Indian+workers+begin+satyagraha

and India still thumbs-down to Open XML
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9899839-7.html?tag=nefd.top

whatt ? hah. yea. what thou say?

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yea, long time since last post. will comment on the dynamics of the frequency of posting and many other things later. currently “wiser” than 1-post-per-day.

reminder to talk about triviality of things, water conservation advice, habbits on keyboard, usability of gadgets. bugs in software, and maybe umbrella shopping!!

Tags: life, thoughts, news, india

Huge tasks

http://qntm.org/?destroy

[ref: chandan rao] delivered to a filled-in-spam orkut messages inbox.

Another website where you can’t guess the content by the url name. But thats not the reason for referring that

long time. reasons for not-writing involve high overhead for blogging than content itself, internet connections that vouch to transfer at least about 2^03 bits per second. and the coordinates of the nearest power generating station from here.

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