March 2008
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Three Mile Island Anniversary
Today marks the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident that occurred on 28 March 1979 at 4:00 am. This was the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry, and not a single new nuclear power plant has been built in the United States since that date.
The Three Mile [...]
Dual Standards: More Choice, or Less?
Via ODFalliance.org blog
Arguments are often made that having two internationally-approved standards for document formats would encourage choice. After all, isn’t competition good? South Africa’s Minister of Public Service and Administration, Ms. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi addressed this issue from the perspective of governments in her opening address at the Idlelo 3 Conference currently underway in Dakar, Senegal:
“South [...]
I’ll Miss You, Russell Shaw
I was shocked to learn this morning that Russell Shaw had died on 14 March 2008 in a hotel room on his way to cover the Emerging Technologies Conference and VON. Shaw was a fanatical blogger at the ZDNet family of publications. More than once he was kind enough to mention my writing with enthusiasm [...]
