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Archive for February, 2008

Daniel Sadilek’s thoughts and experiences: Restore .svn in Keynote/Pages documents

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Daniel Sadilek’s thoughts and experiences: Restore .svn in Keynote/Pages documents
Daniel provides a workaround for the Subversion/Keynote problem I am having.   Still, not great, but it at least helps.

Legality of Current Primary Election System

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

OK, I am not a lawyer and I usually don’t delve into politics in my public life, as I view them to be personal, but I have lately been a bit agitated about my lack of voice in picking a presidential candidate and it got me wondering about the constitutionality of our current primary system.
That [...]

What Would Microsoft Do with Yahoo’s Zimbra? - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

What Would Microsoft Do with Yahoo’s Zimbra? - Yahoo! News
Or, perhaps this is Microsoft’s “out”…  Basic premise, MS buys Y! which is doing a lot more to support Open Source these days.  MS has always been viewed as anti Open Source because of the Linux debacle, among other things.  Buying Y! gives them a way [...]

Google Leads Attack on Microsoft-Yahoo Merger - Yahoo! News

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Google Leads Attack on Microsoft-Yahoo Merger - Yahoo! News
In a Google Blog post Sunday, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, called on regulators to examine “thoroughly” the questions raised by Microsoft’s offer, while reminding everyone that Google stands for “openness and innovation.”
What do people think?  Is Google open?  My gut says no, but I [...]

Newton Running Follow Up

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

I have put about 50-60 miles on my “Newts” now, and am still pretty happy with them.  I have run pretty much all training distances (at least for me) with them on, including 6+ miles, interval runs, tempo runs and all out sprints. My original posts are still pretty much how I feel, but I [...]