Hmm, my normally highly reliable cable broadband connection has been playing silly beggars since lunchtime, and now suddenly I have a new IP address. Co-incidence?
So, goodbye 82.41.57.20 which has been my faithful companion for the past five years or so, and hello 92.235.187.79. And thank you ddclient for making the transition painless..

Over the past week I have reviewed the six bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon): Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Beijing, China; Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary; Dundalk, Ireland; and Orvieto, Italy. So, now for the all-important question: which is the one to vote for?
For people in Asia/Pacific, the chance to attend an OOoCon outside [...]

Today is the start of Fairtrade fortnight, the annual celebration of the campaign to secure better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.
With Scotland aiming for Fairtrade nation status, and Britain’s biggest sugar producer switching all its retail sales to Fairtrade, Fairtrade no [...]

An interesting (if long) blog today by Andy Updegrove A Proposal to Recognize the Need for “Civil ICT Standards”. This week’s discussions in Geneva about Microsoft’s request to ISO to approve a second standard for office documents has generated more heat than light in the technical press. Andy takes a philosophical spin on the issue [...]

This is the last of a series of reviews of the rival bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon).
Proposal
The Italian team make full use of their 400 words to answer the Key Question. The Mandatory section is complete, although the visa information is sparse. The team contains some well-known activists, and one [...]

This is one of a series of reviews of the rival bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon).
Proposal
The Irish team use less than half their word limit to answer the Key Question. The Mandatory section is complete, and the team has a wide variety of members including some well-known Community activists. The [...]

This is one of a series of reviews of the rival bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon).
Proposal
The Hungarian proposal is comprehensive. Their answer to the Key Question is short, but uses bullet points to make its point concisely. The Mandatory section is complete with a comprehensive section on visas. The Optional [...]