manchicken here…

Somebody wrote a song that has a surprisingly familiar title.  Here it is (sorry, they disabled embedding):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-EFXWmkeAk
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Yesterday I complained about OOXML, and the corruption with which it has been approved of in the United States.  In response I had some folks discussing how to help those who are fighting this problem to win their fight… so here’s the how to help article.
I’m a CDROM-card-carrying member of the FSF, and I have [...]

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Application Trends is reporting that the U.S. is voting 11-to-4 to approve OOXML as a standard.  William Jeffery, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is quoting as saying that the NIST favors competing standards.  What a crock.
“Dr.” Jeffery is naive to believe that any standard that Microsoft will cram up the [...]

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So, I haven’t done a political article in a little while. This is a short one.
I’d like to congratulate John McCain–like he cares–in his presumptive Republican party nomination that he mathematically clenched last night. As someone who was concerned about the possibility of whack-jobs like Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee getting the nod, [...]

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Okay, so this post isn’t entirely Free Software related, but it certainly has quite a bit of Free Software involved. First, manchicken.com now has a photo gallery where I’m going to put my photos. Yay. I’m using coppermine for the gallery because it’s simple to install, simple to manage, and it’s Free [...]

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