Montag September 17, 2007
My new hobbies: bats and golf
I always had the strangest mixes of hobbies. Thus, my newest hobbies fit very nicely into that list. Recently my wife and I both took a golf class in order to learn playing golf and in order to get the "license" that is needed in Germany in order to be allowed to play on a real golf course. The one-week class was a lot of fun, even though my joints are still aching. I hope the pain will go away quickly, so that I can give in to my new addiction.
Another new hobby - and the one that actually makes my list of hobbies strange - is bats. I was always very interested in nature, but in the past I was more into bird watching. I even managed to get my wife addicted to bird watching as well. Recently my wife and I attended a few guided tours where we were introduced to the local bat species via ultra-sound / bat detectors. Since my wife and I wanted to learn more about bats and in order to get a chance to see them from closer by, we both volunteered to help with "cleaning up" the "houses" of the endangered species. On this picture you can see how we checked the "houses". It was a lot of fun! Being in nature is always fun! And that we got pretty close to the bats via our "housekeeping work" becomes obvious in the following pictures that I took with my little camera:
BTW, this one is NOT dead! It only pretends to be dead!
( Sep 17 2007, 07:25:04 PM CEST )
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ODF Alliance has now about 450 members from 53 countries!
Wow! I just heard that the ODF Alliance has now about 450 members from 53 countries. The support for ODF is definitely growing world wide.
( Sep 17 2007, 06:53:44 PM CEST )
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The Netherlands adopt ODF
It's a great day for ODF! The Netherlands just decided to adopt ODF. I'm only aware of details available in Dutch so far, but the key information about this information can be found on this web page and in this PDF file. Here is a quote (Dutch) from the PDF file:
"stapsgewijze invoering van de open standaard ODF (Open Document Format) voor
het lezen, schrijven, uitwisselen, publiceren en ontvangen van documenten (uiterlijk
januari 2009 door alle ministeries en mede-overheden ondersteund) op weg naar
grootschalig gebruik van open document formaten voor overheidstoepassingen."
Thus, ODF will be introduced step by step for reading, writing, exchanging and publishing document, and by 2009 all ministries should support ODF. Again, great news!
( Sep 17 2007, 06:39:53 PM CEST )
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OpenOffice.org 2.3 is out
OpenOffice.org 2.3 just got released. The community press release can be found here, and the release notes are available from here. Probably the most important new features are the new Chart tool, and the new Sun Report Builder extension. If you want to develop your own extensions, check out the OpenOffice.org API Plugin for NetBeans.
( Sep 17 2007, 02:30:05 PM CEST )
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