I can’t say I’ve ever used cosmetics from L’Oreal – I guess I’m just not worth it – but I was still slightly depressed to see that they are rumoured to be about to buy up one of their “ethical” competitors, The Bodyshop. This followed news earlier this year that CadburySchweppes had gobbled up Green [...]
Lyon wins the race to host OOoConf 2006
Every day of the year seems to marked out as some sort of Day of This or Day of That. However, tomorrow is a special one for the OpenOffice.org community, as International Mother Language Day 2006 will be devoted to the topic of languages and cyberspace. I have noted before the contribution that OpenOffice.org is [...]
Surely this Guardian article is guilty of Tony Blair’s proposed crime of glorifying terrorism?
Can Fairtrade Kenyan roses ever be justified?
Andrew Brown’s piece in The Guardian If this suite’s a success, why is it so buggy? raised a minor storm of protest in open-source land at the end of last year. He argued that the OpenOffice.org demonstrated that one of the alleged benefits of open-source is in fact a myth: if a user spots a [...]
Thoughts on cheap food
