Big stuff here, this is a major defection away from a Microsoft Windows-based desktop, towards the Linux platform. And it happened in Ireland! I’ve been a bit disturbed by AIB’s shenanigans recently, but they just got a few brownie points for this.
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Back in Ireland (woooooo! I see clouds!) Tired from my two week stint away in Sardinia, but I did get a weekend in Rome–photos going up soon.
And it does look like I’ll be going to Cupertino again in just under two weeks, and staying there for three weeks. That’s the current plan anyway. So hello to those people who I may be seeing again shortly 
I have to work out where to stay. Courtyard in Cupertino is in the middle of nowhere (I don’t drive), so I’d really like to get a hotel on the Caltrain line. I guess Lawrence and Santa Clara are the closest stops. Pros and cons: there’s a shuttle service from HP to Lawrence every morning and evening. But I sort of doubt there’s a reasonable hotel around there–would need to look. Santa Clara might have a hotel nearby, but then I may need to get a taxi for work. Well I guess I could just take one hop on Caltrain and get the aforementioned shuttle. This is an awful lot of effort. But I don’t want to be stuck at night looking for a taxi to get back to the hotel, and that’s what I think a hotel in Cupertino means for me.
[Lorem Ipsum generator](http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator2), I need to remember this one.
The [W3C-sponsored workshop](http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/agenda) arrived, and the outcome is as moribund (for the Internet) as one might have expected. Backwards compatibility was on almost nobody’s agenda (except the web browser *implementors*). Most of the people who presented positions were server-side vendors, and they didn’t care about that, or about things like [MOSE](http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/06/25/mose/). It looks like anything that the W3C pick will be as useful to the Internet in general as XForms or SVG have been.
Reactions from [Ian Hickson](http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1086158925&count=1) and [Joe Gregorio](http://bitworking.org/news/3270_Redux).
“Nigiritude Ultramarine”:http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/06/04/nigritude-ultramarine is a competition where the best attempt at search engine optimisation (against Google) gets to win an iPod Well Anil Dash may have started late in the competition, but the best of luck to him! It would be great for somebody from the blogging community to beat the systems people have built up with thousands of fake sites, etc. etc.
“Patent damage examples”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3722509.stm. Not just small companies. Software patents really are a major problem. In Dublin, the Green Party and Ivana Bacik from Labour have said that they are against the imposition of software patents.
Go out and vote conscientiously in the EU elections on Thursday!
Well I won’t be posting much here for a while–I’m currently basking in the sun in Sardinia. Exaggeration–it’s a trip to do stuff for work, so I haven’t been outside too much yet. But I won’t be back until tomorrow week, maybe I’ll get to enjoy the sun at the weekend. Plenty of photo ops too, I’ve brought my camera along.