Further to my note yesterday about the OpenOffice.org Community leaving the parental home at Oracle and setting up their own place … One of the key jobs they used to do was Quality Assure OpenOffice.org (QA is a huge and boring job, ideally suited to a worldwide network of enthusiasts). From this Oracle blog posting, [...]
Our house is very quiet this morning – for the first time since we moved here, there’s just my wife and me in residence. Our offspring, both in their twenties, have flown the nest. Our friends report this is happening later and later in their families, with adult children finding it more and more difficult [...]
We’ve been getting quotes for fitting solar panels on to our roof. These panels convert solar energy (daylight) into electrical energy, which we can either use in our house or sell to our electricity supplier. The government has introduced a Feed-In-Tariff Scheme, which is a completely misleading name for what is actually a guaranteed price [...]
