Standards NZ responds to an alleged slur to another National Body by
Microsoft of one of their advisers in the OOXML debacle:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080318151252279
A novel approach has been taken to checking the number of defects
fixed and remaining in the OOXML docs using random sampling:
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/how-many-defects-remain-in-ooxml.html
The VLC media player is subject to a cross-platform overflow security
vulnerability by carefully crafted subtitle file:
http://torrentfreak.com/vlc-player-vulnerable-remote-hijack-080318/
In Memoriam. Science fiction writer and visionary Arthur C. Clarke
dies in Sri Lanka after breathing difficulties at 90. Farewell video is online:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7304004.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE
BigDog the military quadrupedal robot is now bigger, faster, and
capable of jumping over obstacles:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU
And finally. Want to live in a treehouse village? Try this cozy little development six miles from Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1520
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.