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December 21, 2005
Washington Post: OpenOffice
Interesting transcript with Robin Miller, author of "Point and Click: OpenOffice.org." On the same day, another Washington Post transcript was with Tony Bove, author of "Just Say No to Microsoft How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It's Not as Hard as You Think."
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Need For Speed… How Real?
Om Malik on Broadband: After years of being stuck in the slow lane, the US consumers are finally going to get a massive speed upgrade and taste the true broadband for the first time. From a 512 Kbps world to 6 Mbps, then 8 and soon 15 Mbps…. it seems the future has finally arrived. And with that, the question…. how much speed is enough? Can we the consumers really tell the difference between 15 and 30 Mbps? Or is it just a way for the broadband operators to get us to pay more… for something which we might use less.
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The difficulties of living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house
NY Times: Living with Frank Lloyd Wright. Houses by famous architects are notoriously impractical. So when Frank and Jeanne Cretella bought the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in New York City three years ago, they were worried that the roof might leak.
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