Palladium Caching
Thanks to Susan Panian at American Town Network (now the largest online community network in the U.S.) for telling me about how Palladium shoes is taking an innovative approach to selling shoes by tapping in to Geocaching. Geocaching is on my short list of next big things, and I have promised to write a non-trivial […]
Open Office Is Here
Many people are already aware of the new free Open Office 2.0 productivity suite, but if you are not I highly recommend taking a look. You can find it at openoffice.org, I am quite impressed with what the team of collaborators around the world has done. The spreadsheet application, presentation tool, and word processor are […]
Open Documents — Part 2
There are some questions people have asked me about the OpenDocument Format . The first question is what is the consumer benefit of ODF, in other words why should you care? Nice that the automotive and aircraft industries can benefit but does it mean to the average consumer? The one-word answer is compatibility. How many […]
Route 7 Benchmarks
U.S. Route 7 reaches 309 miles from Highgate Springs, Vermont to Norwalk, Connecticut. Parts of Route 7 are quite scenic but much of the highway is used heavily by commuters. I am not sure how many of the nation’s 736,425 benchmarks are along the entire route but by doing some research using the Geocaching Swiss […]
Open Documents
The debate about the OpenDocument format is just beginning. Massachusetts put a stake in the ground with their decision to adopt ODF for all employees in the Commonwealth and for anyone doing business with them. This may go down in history as a bold and important move. But Microsoft, which opposes ODF, will not give […]