Links for 07-09-2008

• Linux Hater's Blog: Turn your head and KOffice - Good one: "Maybe someone thinks that if Linux has like 3 billion office suites, then it can finally take over MS Office? I mean, there's so much choice. Who could possibly resist?"
• William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » A nice place to stay in Standardstown - A very funny take on standards bodies.
• Food Notebook: Arcadia - Is it worth the price? [San Jose] - French fries in duck fat, via @carterlusher.
• EMC CEO's ego has cost investors billions | The Register - I'm not sure to what degree I lay this, well, fiasco at Joe Tucci's feet personally as opposed to many of his execs--but he is CEO after all.
• Oil Rig Photos | Home - I used to work in the offshore drilling biz. Maybe I'll put up some pics.
• One Subpoena Is All It Takes to Reveal Your Online Life - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - "in the United States, one of the biggest privacy issues is what information about people can be revealed through a court process, either as part of a criminal investigation or in some sort of civil dispute." This is essentially one of the issues that Eben Moglen has been making about what we now call "cloud computing" for a while.
• VMware's Diane Greene is the toast of Silicon Valley - October 15, 2007 - This is an interesting background article on Diane Greene and VMware that I missed originally.