Massachusetts loses open technology proponent

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Wednesday December 28, 2005 · 12:50 PM PST

2005/12/28 · 12:50

Recently, the Massachusetts I.T. department has established a rule that documents are to be kept, transmitted and archived in an open format. The format they selected is the Open Document Format, an international standard already supported by the OpenOffice (and therefore Sun Microsystems' StarOffice) sofware packages, as well as upcoming support from a variety of other software producers. However, Microsoft refuses to develop support for this wide-open, non-patent-encumbered format, despite being a member of the broader standards body (OASIS) that established the Open Document Format.

The statewide I.T. director who accepted responsibility for establishing an open government document policy, Peter Quinn, has resigned in frustration over the treatment he has received in response to his support of unencumbered I.T. policy.
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Sunday April 17, 2005 · 11:14 PM PDT

2005/04/17 · 23:14

Having just seen Sagan's Blue Dot (thanks be to rimjob), and bhlogger's diary about the Republicans and Organized Religion, I guess now is as good a time as any to start.

My mother made an honest effort to raise us Presbyterian, and my father made an honest effort to bring us up Methodist. But very early on, it just didn't "fit" for me.

It took a long time, but I came to hear the voice of the Being with Nine Billion Names. Lately, that faith is being sorely tested. Read More

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