Open Office 1.1.2 on Mac OS X is snappy
I've been converting some slides over to Open Office format using the "experimental" X11 build of Open Office 1.1.2 for the Mac. Like most X11 apps under Mac OS X, Open Office doesn't look quite right and is a little, shall we say, quirky. But, after using it for a while I can testify that it is stable and very snappy. The Powerpoint import is very nice too, much improved over 1.0.
How long will we have to wait for a true native app? The Open Office team is working towards native Quartz and Aqua versions for release in late 2005.
FeedMesh
Sam Ruby: FeedMesh is a group working to establish a "peering network" for decentralized web(site|log) update notifications and content distribution
Interesting off-blog newsfeed discussions
Bob Wyman's Atom Syntax mailing list post blogs.msdn.com: RSS consumes too much bandwidth kicked off a very interesting discussion on the Atom Syntax mailing list. All of the well known remedies have been discussed including conditional GET, ETags, and compression. The discussions wander off into other areas such as serving newsfeeds over XMPP, using SSFT, and other interesting ideas.
Patrick Chanezon suggested that Danny Ayers' JSoup library could allow Rome to better handle malformed newsfeeds and the Romans are now exploring the idea of incorporating JSoup into the Rome project.