Meta-blog?

The last blog word on actual blogging otherwise I'll have to call this

a meta-blog :-). This blog is now mirrored by the miracle of RSS to href=http://www.livejournal.com/users/stsquad_real/>this

LiveJournal account. So people can add the feed to their live journal

account and comment on it as they wish. End of Subject

Now two stories have caught my eye today,

and

` <%3Cbr>`__ http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1>one

interesting development.The first story is yet another example of business having gotten over its

irrational fear on Linux and realizing they can work with these Free

Software hippie types.

The second story is a good follow-up on something I

` talked about earlier <http://www.bennee.com/~alex/news.php?wl_start=32>`__.

Australia as a nation seems to have a more positive attitude to

open-source in general. For example a lot of the development of

Samba, the free

windows networking replacement comes from Oz. But as far as electronic

election systems go they have taken a very open approach that is

refreshing compared to the Diebold debacle. I still have concerns

about e-voting (like the lack of a paper trail) but at the very

minimum it has to be an open system.