Bill Clinton in Seoul, South Korea for the C40 Summit, an annual meeting of some of the world’s largest cities committed to addressing climate change, announced the Climate Positive Development Program in partnership with the U.S. […]
The Japanese government has announced a 15.4 trillion yen ($150 billion) stimulus package that includes measures to support fuel-efficient vehicles and consumer electronics. This is the third stimulus package announced by the government in the last year. […]
I’ve blogged here and here about the Nikon P6000 with a built-in GPS. Here are some pictures taken at the Ottawa Tulip Festival. Select the “Map” option to see the locations of all the pictures. During […]
At FOSSLC Summercamp, Richard Weait presented an overview of OpenStreetMap. You can watch his presentation here. He relates a fascinating story about a map edit disagreement in Cyprus where two contributors disagreed about the name of a […]
I came across a blog post by Joe Francica that injected a bit of humour into the otherwise marginally encouraging economic news.
At FOSSLC Summercamp, John Duff presented an overview of Git and GitHub. You can watch his presentation here. Git is an open source, distributed version control system similar to CVS and SVN. The major […]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has allocated $5.55 billion to the General Services Administration (GSA) for federal public building projects. Of this $4.5 billion is targetted on converting federal buldings into model green […]
Recovery.gov is reporting on a weekly basis the stimulus funds that are available and the amount actually paid out. Detailed reports from all federal agencies will be available Sunday.