Archive for June, 2006

SlopeSide.ie Launch Swishingly Superb!

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I was at the Slope Side Ski Tour operators business launch yesterday in the Odeon here in Dublin.

They offer tailor made packages to the world’s largest linked ski resort, Portes du Soleil [more specifically Morzine where their chalets are], in the heart of the French and Swiss Alps. You get picked up from the airport, which is only a two hour drive from the resort so you don’t have too much of your trip wasted on travelling and you even get a live-in Chef for the duration of your stay so you can be sure the meals are spot-on delicious and to your own liking!

The guys gave such an ebullient, professional and energetic presentation that I can’t but believe they’ll do well in their new business.

It’s also nice to spot they’re using OpenSource for their website :-)

(small disclaimer/note of interest: one of the business partners is my Fiancée’s brother).

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o2sms gotcha

Friday, June 9th, 2006

From #linux:
If you install the new version (v 3.12) of o2sms on top of an existing install, be sure to delete the old .cookie file or it won’t log into O2′s new site properly.

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Jonathan Kozol Hates Microsoft!

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Peter Rock Lacroix, a technology coordinator and teacher at a small international school in west Africa gives the background about the school being told to reverse it’s decision to move to Free Software (which was decided unanimously by the school’s Technology Committee) after “numerous recommendations forthcoming from the US Embassy, the State Department, and technology professionals involved in providing services to international schools worldwide”.

It’s interesting how an unanimous decision by a small school in west Africa gets overturned by the influence of, wait…the US Embassy and State Department – not the school’s director but by some other sovereign state.
[ http://gnuosphere.blogspot.com/2006/06/jonathan-kozol-hates-microsoft.html]

This reminds me of the President of Peru being invited to visit Bill Gates after Peruvian legislators approved a bill sanctioning use of open source software by government and levelling the playing field for start-ups against Microsoft.
[ http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54141,00.html , http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/16/peru_mulls_free_software_gates/]

The interference of the US and Microsoft [so Microsoft gets to retain a monopoly] in particular with the internal affairs of sovereign states is most vexing.

And to sum it off? Peter was told “you need to refrain from placing undue focus on your personal beliefs concerning the philosophy and practice of Microsoft.”

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