Why are we so worried about terrorism when so many more people are dying on our highways?

"Suppose 245,000 americans had died in terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001. The United States would be beside itself, utterly gripped by a sense of national emergency. Political leaders would speak of nothing else, the United States military would stand at maximum readiness, and the White House would vow not to rest until the danger to Americans had been utterly eradicated."

http://tinyurl.com/2lhst5

Back to Basics - why OpenXML should not be an ISO/IEC standard

"It is certainly an unsatisfactory situation when the dominant vendor does not support the ISO/IEC standard. But adopting a second standard is not the answer. The answer is obvious: MS should adopt the existing ISO/IEC standard. It would also be highly desirable for governments to mandate the existing ISO/IEC standard for their own documents, in order to put pressure on MS to adopt it."

http://doyoulovems.com/archives/67