taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

Apache: Not content with distributing GPL’d software, Microsoft are now taking another step into the open-source world by shipping Apache-licensed code.

Not quite as big a deal as the GPL — but still, another interesting milestone.

Tags: apache, apache-licensed, code, content, deal, gpl, microsoft, milestone, software, step, world

Funny: According to a ‘top Austrian doctor’, picking your nose and eating it is good for you:

‘Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine.

‘Modern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free.’

Tags: deal, doctor, filter, funny, medically, medicine, mixture, nose, sense, system, thing

eVoting: Craig passes on this link: apparently thousands of Orange County voters were given the wrong ballots in last week’s election. The result is that in 21 precincts, there were more ballots cast than registered voters. It gets better — apparently the voting machine vendor has said it will be impossible to figure out how many ballots are invalid as a result. It’d be funny if it wasn’t such a big deal…

Tags: cast, deal, election, evoting, link, machine, result, vendor, voting, week

Whoa: ‘This spring, Microsoft dropped the price of Windows CE and completely opened its embedded operating system to developers, allowing them for the first time to not only view and modify CE, but also sell products that incorporated the customized code.’

Really? So WinCE developers can modify and then rebuild and sell WinCE with code changes? That’s a big deal. It’s kind of unavoidable, though. That close to the metal is virtually impossible without source IMO.

Tags: code, deal, microsoft, price, spring, system, time, whoa, wince, windows

My parents, sister, and her husband Luke, just rang to wish lá féile Padraig shona againn. Thanks guys!

But, as part of the deal, I had to promise to impart some google-juice to my Dad’s website; he’s an architectural photographer in Dublin, Ireland, who also does a nice sideline in stock photography, especially where his holiday snaps are involved. So he’s now on the sidebar ;)

Tags: againn, dad, deal, file, husband, part, photographer, sideline, sister, website