Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early, poked mail and missed messages overnight.
Interested, though unsurprised to see a new Nokia CEO. Watched his Gartner performance for Microsoft (on Nokia at 30mins, and Linux 36mins). Interesting that he has not been at Microsoft -that- long, and worked for various other competitors. Curious times indeed. Also interested to see the fast ARM CPU analysis - a cheap, low power, 8 core, multi-GHz ARM chip - only 32 bit though, so not really suitable for servers, presumably not low enough power for handhelds either: so when will the ARM desktop arrive ? and can the proprietary world really cope with a different architecture ?
Prodded admin. Interviewed another OO.o candidate. Pleased to see the Wordpress trademark transferred to a non-profit: that's great practise:
Automattic has transferred the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to promoting and ensuring access to WordPress and related open source projects in perpetuity. This means that the most central piece of WordPress's identity, its name, is now fully independent from any company.

This is a really big deal. ...

It's important for me to know that WordPress will be protected and that the brand will continue to be a beacon of open source freedom regardless of whether any company is as benevolent as Automattic has been thus far. It's important to me to know that we've done the right thing.
Amen. If only all nominally open communities were that well managed, and structured: go Matt Mullenweg.
Irritated by the hype around Google instant search not being available to mere mortals in the UK, with the particularly fun instant re-direction to the UK site you get from the US one. Why should Americans have all the fun ? It is this kind of thing that gives me an insane urge to smoke a Koran (or something). Perhaps if I blackmail all of America by threatening them with a mass of demented, homicidal maniacs I could get on TV, and call for better Google search in the UK ? if it works for others ... Not getting enough respect ? try threatening to murder a few people left & right to build credibility; how offensive.
Finally got to the end of mail, and poked some code at last. Thrilled to see Broadcom apparently finally do the right thing - and open source their drivers: oh what needless pain we suffered, can it really be at an end ? Excellent.
Submitted a paper on bootchart2 somewhat late for the Plumbers Conference, and moved my flight to the right month (being over-eager to meet the august audience that I had it scheduled for October instead of November).

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2010-09-10: Friday.