Just a quick note: ESUG’s 14th International Smalltalk Conference 2006 is in Prague, in the land of Pilsner Urquell and other good stuff .
Time to prepare a Kolibri talk…
Update: Giovanni Corriga pointed out a conference that might even be more interesting

Well, Squeak news keeps coming: Spanish Technology ministry the has published a tender for Squeak-based museum displays.
I haven’t been able to find the tender itself on-line, but the Regional Government of the Extremadura is an avid Open Source supporter, so this would be a great opportunity.
Any Spanish-speaking Squeakers up for setting up a consortium […]

Well, to many out there Smalltalk may be all but dead, but how many companies in the languages market can report an 88% revenue growth?
Nice to know that this is a sound business. Hopefully Instantiations will take notice and start some serious VA Smalltalk marketing - competition it good.
And for the open sourcy […]

The Register reports that the inventor of LSD, Albert Hoffman, turned 100 and despise years of LSD use is still fit enough to appear at an LSD symposium in Basel.
When I worked in Basel at Sandoz, I heard stories of widespread LSD, err, “research” in the labs during the ’70s. In the end, the company […]

The LamaBox adds another headache for the movie industry. This Dutch product brings access to p2p networks to the fingertips of the average consumer - it hooks directly to the TV, lets the user find movies, and starts downloading them in the background from Edonkey, Bittorrent, Fasttrack, Gnutella or Overnet - wherever the item is […]

Elections coming up
The current Squeak Foundation (SqF) board will be stepping down in February 2006. Elections will be held to select the new board members.
After the “Castaways coup” formed last year, a lot has happened. And a lot hasn’t happened, but most of us know that we’re on a long journey here. And in the […]

So, as expected, Apple announced the first Intel-based products, and as expected, they have started with a notebook and a consumer-oriented workstation.
I was responsible for the Apple port of the OpenLink ODBC drivers back when Apple stepped up from the 68k series to the PowerPC. I don’t know how it was for application developers, […]

Well, well. Looks like the legal department has succeeded in waking up the Sony bosses - the class action lawsuit in New York is going to be settled, according to The Register, and with terms that even us DRM haters would welcome, I think.

Spotted in Forbes.com, school officials seem to be less than amused when kids want to show their heritage at high school dances (or just want to wear skirts for the heck of it).
“To say the traditional Scottish dress makes you look like a clown is a direct insult to people of Scottish heritage and those […]

In The Register, IBM coughs up for multimedia network management:
The $865m all-cash transaction will see Micromuse turned into one of IBM’s Tivoli business units under general manager Al Zollar, and its products added to the Tivoli range and sold through IBM’s sales channels and business partners.
So what? Well, earlier this year, let’s say in […]