So in the first bit of good news lately, after four years as a part-timer, this Monday I start my full-time position at Rutgers as a Linux SysAdmin. Not really anything different - same office, same work, just another day a week and a pay bump (plus benefits and all that …

Some links for today:

Microsoft’s new promised on interoperability, open standards. etc. - somewhat ironic given the Office Open XML debacle on “standards”. And Red Hat’s worries about it. (Ars Technica)

Groklaw’s lengthy analysis of the promises.

Pakistan removed from the Internet, causes global YouTube outage.

A Guardian …