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Mark Twomey provides excellent coverage of the goings on at Tech.Ed in Amsterdam!

Militant European Linux users nearly started a fistfight with members of the Windows 2003 Server team when a FUD war went wrong. (The Microsoft definition of Open Source being somewhat different than the Linux community’s definition of Open Source.) The OS propagandists usually never come to blows as they all know that their arguments are only so much crap, but there were some very steamed up techies scurrying around the halls after a heated discussion or two today.

Microsoft’s Services for Unix guy was fun, asking assembled crowds how many of them were Linux/Unix developers who felt like fish out of water, laughing when most of the hands went up and saying that this was the safest place for them to be right now, or at least it was until the roaming packs of guys in the MSDN T-Shirts were sluggish after lunch and couldn’t chase them all that fast.

More on the Bush interview from boingboing! I also read in the Irish Times that a member of the Irish Government defended the interview by Carole Coleman. I’ll have a look for a link later..
Much Later.. Rymus has more, including a letter to the Examiner from a US citizen.

Aidan Staunton, a renowned Cork artist, is showing a collection of his paintings in the Cork Vision Centre for the next two weeks. This is what Whazon.com says about him:

Images of Cork City and Ireland West.

A visually striking exhibition by Cork based artist Aidan Staunton. The exhibition consists of oils and watercolours. This is his seventh solo exhibition.

He is inspired by old Cork City scenes and the rugged landscape of the West of Ireland.

In his exhibitions he records both places and changes that have occurred in cork over the past few years. His paintings range from the urban images of cork city, through to the rural aspects of the West of Ireland.

This exhibition will run from 30th June –15th July 2004

The Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s is open from Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm.

I attended the opening of the exhibition last night and his paintings are breath-taking. If I had some spare cash I’d buy “Looking Down St. Patrick’s Hill”, or “Fitzgerald’s Park Fountain” to adorn the living room at home!