Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps

@webmink

Eclectic geek, campaigning for digital liberties & political transparency. Photos & music to protect sanity in the process. Available for speaking & consulting.

Southampton, UK · http://www.webmink.com/

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I just successfully downloaded LibreOffice, created spreadsheet, and uploaded to web app. LOVE open software. cc@libreofficenews

It works anywhere as a GChat add-on. My comment was directed at local numbers inbound outside the USA, so it can replace landlines.

LibreOffice to have experimental support for Visio 2013 - which isn't even released yet:

House of Lords is running an investigation into the UK Government's new approach to consultation:

Have you considered Status Net? It can be installed by an enterprise while still federating with Twitter (and identica).

Whatever happened to Google Voice outside the USA? With outrageous roaming charges, we need it more than ever.

RT : O2 roaming rates to rise by up to 140%: <-- I always buy a local SIM now, this gouging is immoral.

HTML5 mythbusting: <-- All the criticism of HTML5 reminds me of identical criticism of Java in the 90s.

A breakthrough in opening up data: British medical journal requires drug companies to release clinical trial data:

Seems attack dogs are too fierce to be pets when their work is done: <--Unseen victims of war

Doesn't matter what my horoscope says- It's a very bad sign that I'm reading it

Apple updated their UK site at the bottom using javascript so no matter how big it is, the statement won't show without scrolling.

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