For the case you, dear reader, are not subscribed to the KDE-accessibility mailinglist (tststs), we received a rather interesting mail just yesterday; Project Announce: AT-SPI D-Bus

While a new law was accomplished that allows police to break into every house, install a trojan horse on our computer-systems and video-cams in our rooms to secret monitor us, others are on there way to ban internet-games they don't like or to just shut down wikipedia cause they can;

Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net

If you like to laugh then the Apple presents the iRack clip may something for you - always again impressing how close political reality and good jokes can be

Just two days ago I was still partly optimistic in the hope the ISO would do it's job. Yesterday we got it official, they don't.

It's a while I blogged last time about the progress on the goggle summer of code project to Improve OpenDocument in KWord. Mainly cause after working on a lot of smaller things till the mid-term we picked one of the bigger tasks and spend last weeks on it: pagestyles also known as masterpages.

Isn't it funny if you browse around the web and keep on to run into all those Eee-PC clones out there and note that nearly all of them are running KDE@Linux. Yet other examples I did run into are the Acer Aspire One and the ultra-mini PC. Both are running Linpus (a for small displays optimized GNU/Linux-distribution based on Fedora 8 ) with the "Friendly KDE desktop environment"

While working on Improving OpenDocument in KWord for gsoc2008 we enjoyed today again one of this very productive pair-programming days. The todays goal was not that difficult: get those svg:x and svg:y positions for text-anchors (which are used to position frames like e.g. an image relative to there anchor) working.

Just like last year the KDE-family did provide us again a gsoc-slot to work on Improve ISO OpenDocument support (in KOffice, particularly in KWord). Not only did the number of mentors drastically increased but personally I also had the feeling the number of very good proposals did. To be allowed to read all of them was such exciting that I found myself spending hours over hours on the huge list reading lots of proposals again and again just for fun.

Imagine you have a family - so something like one wife, 1.5 children and a dog - and you decided that it's better to feed them at least once per day and to provide some kind of home to survive during the cold days.

Both of those basic requirments are not that simple any longer since prices continue to increase on a monthly base while you still earn only around 4 Euro per hour (what is at least close to one meal for one person - ok, there are still those taxes that eat half of the 4 Euro, but it's at least still >0!) on your day-(and night-)job(s).

It is one case to walk through 7000 pages of rather technical documentation and to try to extract something useful out of it for a concrete question. It is another thing to look at the actual XML produced by the Microsoft Office 2007 suite.