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London were quite pleased by Semel's departure." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:36:49 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digital-web.com/articles/5_questions_andy_budd/&quot;&gt;Digital Web&lt;/a&gt; has questions for Brighton-based CSS deity Andy Budd." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:33:50 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/hackday&quot;&gt;Wired&lt;/a&gt; has a write-up of HackDay." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:33:16 GMT"/>		<outline text="Online office suites are pointless" created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:13:39 GMT">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_office_suite_comparison.php&quot;&gt;Read/Write Web&lt;/a&gt; has a round up of online office suites." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:13:17 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/zenter/&quot;&gt;Mashable&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://valleywag.com/tech/built-to-flip/-270396.php&quot;&gt;Valleywag&lt;/a&gt; have articles on Google's buy-out of Zenter, an online PowerPoint." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:13:48 GMT"/>			<outline text="I cannot see the point, to be honest. The best thing about the Web is that it's made all these office and productivity suites irrelevant. XHTML and XML have just supplanted all my document needs. More often than not, I'm needing to move data around and manipulate it. I'm finding that, more often than not, storing it as some kind of XML document and then using XSLT to transform it to a Formatting Object or XHTML+CSS file does the job." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:15:00 GMT"/>			<outline text="As for spreadsheets - what is the &lt;i&gt;point&lt;/i&gt;? What can I achieve by using a spreadsheet that I can't achieve by writing a Python script, for crying out loud, except that I'm limited to data being in two dimensions ratehr than as many dimensions as a multi-dimensional array (sorry, dictionary/tuple combination) can be in." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:17:06 GMT"/>			<outline text="Presentations are handled excellently by &lt;a href=&quot;http://weyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/&quot;&gt;S5&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:18:29 GMT"/>			<outline text="I'm not sure what the point of porting outmoded 'office/productivity' paradigms to the web are - productivity software makes me a lot less productive because it's designed for some mythical average user. If I have an XML document or a Python script, I can run it however I want. All I want is a really great web-based ASCII and XML editor which supports things like XSLT natively. How about it?" created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:20:22 GMT"/>			<outline text="The future of web applications is simple - stop making generic tools and start makign specific tools that aggregate togeter. For instance, if you are creating a business form, don't bother with a word processor - have a specific component that is designed for making forms well - perhaps a decent, web-based XForms editor." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:26:40 GMT"/>			<outline text="Beyond testing, I have never used Google Docs or any of it's equivalents for anything. It's utterly pointless. Whatever machine I'm on has a &lt;i&gt;text editor&lt;/i&gt;. I've got a brain. I can format my own goddamn documents." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:29:17 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/onlineOfficeSuitesArePointless10797/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('onlineOfficeSuitesArePointless10797');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/onlineOfficeSuitesArePointless10797/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('onlineOfficeSuitesArePointless10797'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Council of Ex-Muslims Launch" created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:55:40 GMT">			<outline text="I'm at Portcullis House (which is security theatre a-go-go) in London for the press launch of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk&quot;&gt;Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain&lt;/a&gt;. I'm hiding away at the back, feeling very underdressed, waiting for Salman Rushdie to wander in trying to avoid a nutty mullah or ayatollah trying to slit his throat - only to find out that the majority of the speakers on the panel are women." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:55:47 GMT"/>			<outline text="On the way in, I saw that at noon there are prayers inside Portcullis House. I think that anyone who thinks that there is a divine being up in the ever-further-away ether of space is too delusional to be put in charge of milk montior, let alone given a seat at Parliament." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:59:40 GMT"/>			<outline text="Having established themselves in a number of other European countries, it seems like a jolly good idea to set up in Britain. The first speaker, Mina Ahadi, being translated from German brings up the important point that people are just that - people - not Muslims just by dint of living in countries that are ruled by Muslims. We also have to criticise all religions (I love the fact that Christians often try to defend their faith by saying they are &lt;i&gt;not as bad&lt;/i&gt; as Islam!)." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:04:20 GMT"/>			<outline text="Mahin Alipour described (in translated Farsi) a similar experience in Scandinavia where human rights are being superseded by religious special privilege." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:13:33 GMT"/>			<outline text="&quot;A Muslim is always a Muslim&quot; writes an e-mailer to Maryam Namazie. A challenge to Islam and it's presuppositions and aspirations to power seems to be what is required." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:24:49 GMT"/>			<outline text="Well, I think that this is a stunning idea. I've seen so many Muslims (and Christians) who keep quiet about their non-belief or doubts for fear of condemnation from society around them and even their parents and family. Anything to try and fight the psychological dementia that religion causes in certain people." created="Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:43:37 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/councilOfExmuslimsLaunch17916/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('councilOfExmuslimsLaunch17916');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/councilOfExmuslimsLaunch17916/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('councilOfExmuslimsLaunch17916'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>