Pushing OOXML

Would you expect a technical specification to be human readable? Would you expect it to be even more human readable when it’s an “open” specification?

Now take a look at the picture below, would you consider this pile of paper — being the 6000 pages OOXML spec — human readable?

Source: NoOOXML.org

Someone is in a hurry trying to get a specification ISO certified, without having a correct, accessible specification.

Four weeks in Ghana

For those wondering where I’ve been lately: Ghana. Stories, pictures and even a movie clip on margaliti.blogspot.com (dutch).

I put some pictures online at sodutch.com.

Relaxing at Point7 in Tamale

Fabricating UTP cables in Akoma Computer School Tamale

Broodje ei (egg sandwich) in Hohoe

Breakfast at the Golden Beach Resort in Prampram

View from our room in Fort Lijdzaamheid (Fort Patience)