The great Building Project continues well. If you’re interested, you can see photos on Facebook: if you’re reading this and not one of my Facebook contacts – and think you should be – add me via my email address on the Contact page.
I also see that Stephen Fry appears in a short video celebrating 25 years of the GNU Free Software Foundation: he’s always struck me as a good free software, Linux and gadget fan, so this is interesting. The video itself is a bit dull, really, but it does bring out the fact that those of us promoting the use of free software and open standards are working with similar philosophy to those carrying out scientific research. That is, making our work public for everyone to benefit from.
Two days ago, Google released Google Chrome, a new web browser. That is, it does broadly the same thing as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. It looks very shiny and, based on a quick test I gave it in a Windows XP virtual machine, extremely fast. I think this is a good thing. Not because Google Chrome is necessarily any better or worse than Firefox or Internet Explorer, but because the more different browsers become mainstream, the more likely web developers are to adhere properly to web standards when designing and programming their pages. Even Internet Explorer, in its latest incarnation IE8, will apparently be “standards-compliant by default”. That’s better for everyone.