Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early packed babes off to school with J. Poked at mail and the web, phoned up Toyota in irritation at this presumably there is some alternative explanation for their apparent incompetance. Then again, after the horribly mis-spelled, poor grammer in a 5x page advert in the Economist (of all places), perhaps their marketing department is just horribly sub-standard.
Pleased to read that OO.o is substantially more popular than the leading web office suite: it at least confirms my prejudice & hype-ometer readings. The question is - why would anyone throw away their huge, working application, and start re-writing it wholesale in JavaScript ? I mean, don't even know anyone that claims JavaScript is an ideal language, or has some radical new programmer productivity metaphore to better other languages; at least the whole (failed) "re-write everything in Java" religion (that suckered Corel) had something going for it at the time language-wise. Of course, collaboration and ubiquity are important - but apparently not that important.
Interested to read Jonathon's value of distribution paper:
An auction's afoot (no pun intended) to see who we'll be partnering with us to integrate their businesses and brands into our binary product distribution - the possibilities are limitless: people tend to print those documents, fax them, copy them, project them (and I know this annoys my friends in the free software community, but branding allows us to invest more in OO.o community and features, from which everyone benefits).
It looks like we can all look forward to more Sun (or other) brands across OO.o, and auctions (with presumably un-disclosed terms & payments) for product positioning inside OO.o (as well as Java). The piece about investing more in OO.o is a bit rich though, given the fact of their declining investment. As a corollary - Is success having a Sun watermark on every printed page ?. Another interesting aspect of this blog is how Java (and Java ISVs) are being used to drive MySQL adoption: seems reasonable; but what if you contribute to (or use) Java but don't like MySQL ? (perhaps preferring the better postgresql eg.) and don't want your support and use of Java to turn into support for MySQL: bad luck I guess.
Poked at Clarity time-keeping, more mail; lunch with Bruce & Anne. Call with JP. Filed patch adding the intel 865G to the compiz black-list, sad - since it used to work really nicely with Mesa 7.2. Played with the accessible 11.1 live-CD again, looking a lot better than before.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2008-11-17: Monday.