I had the time to play yet another exciting game on my Linux box. It’s a free first person shooter called Urban Terror. The game is a total modification of the immensely popular Quake III Arena. It introduces many elements of the tactical shooter genre --team-driven gaming in more realistic environments.

Why the battle over document formats is also one that revolves around the Web.

My last couple of weeks has been spent focusing on getting cover art back up to scratch in Amarok 2. Cover art really adds a lot of spice and colour into the UI of the application, especially now that we are showing the artwork in the collection browser, context view and playlist.

The VAR Guy is always looking for a bargain. And he just spotted one. The ASUS Eee PC — that little Linux laptop — is going on sale. Here’s the scoop.

This summer, my Vietnamese Immersion Students at the American International School will spend about three weeks learning how to touch type in my computer class with Tux Typing, an open source typing tutorial program.

The South African minister of public service and administration on Monday addressed the opening of the Idlelo 3 free software conference in Dakar Senegal, saying software patents posed a considerable threat to the growth of the African software sector.

But what if the user didn’t know the images were on the computer? Or what if the user didn’t know what the Web site was before it was clicked?

Sorry. That doesn’t count. The link got clicked. The images are on the computer. Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Don’t pass Go. Don’t collect $200.

But I thought that it might be useful to pause to share the "Huh?" that I experienced when I stumbled across this article by Andrew Donoghue at ZDNet while enjoying a brief respite of laptop connectivity in the lobby of a hotel. The article is titled, "Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOMXL" and is based on an address by Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee.