Aro Cardiff Buddhist Group

"This Cardiff Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation Group provides an opportunity to meet to practice Meditation and Yogic Song. Beginners and experienced practitioners welcome."

http://www.meetup.com/Aro-Cardiff-Buddhist-Group/

Vietnam to widely use open source software

"Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of clients of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software; 100% of staffs at these IT divisions must be trained in the use of these software products and at least 50% use them proficiently."

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/01/822425/


http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F07%2F1940248

The Gubbins Experiment

"Adam "Gubbins" Greenfield is liberating himself from all car journeys for 2009. Join him as he discovers why the "impossible" may be surprisingly possible."

"The combustion engine represents the something-for-nothing way of living that dominates our modern world. It's an existence dependent on borrowing from the past (fossil fuel energy) and from the future (the health of the planet). In exchange for ease of movement now, we commit the Earth to ever expanding ecological debt and we invest ourselves in systems with no future. With peak oil looming, the mass oil-based mass private transport system isn't going to work for much longer."

"As an outsider, I've come to realize how violent the act of driving is. Our public spaces, the areas outside of our buildings, have become death strips populated by dangerous chunks of metal that threaten to take out anybody who puts a foot wrong. The alienation and dehumanization of society owes much to the combustion engine. It was not what we were promised at the car of the automobile."