{"id":240,"date":"2007-10-13T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T06:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-10-13T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T06:19:54","slug":"ibm-patent-rwc-and-rss-feed-update-13-october-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/ibm-patent-rwc-and-rss-feed-update-13-october-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Patent, RWC and RSS feed update &#8211; 13 October 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=238\">own question on whether<\/a> one can patent offshoring\/outsourcing was sort off answered when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sutor.com\/newsite\/blog-open\/?p=1869\">IBM dropped the patent application<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to the Boks in their game against Argentina in the RWC tomorrow evening.&#xA0; I just know they will win.&#xA0; And my prediction for tonight, although not easy, is that France will go through to the final.&#xA0; What a prospect to look forward to, SA vs France in the RWC final.&#xA0; Who would have predicted that 2 months ago?<\/p>\n<p>Now onto my RSS feed tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Free\/Open Source software I use or recommend &#8212;<\/strong>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=42804\">Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.2.3<\/a>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/fileforum.betanews.com\/detail\/AdAware_2007_Reference_File\/1011231817\/1\">Ad-Aware 2007 Reference File BETA0024.0000<\/a>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/fileforum.betanews.com\/detail\/WinMerge\/972710720\/1\">WinMerge 2.7.5.3 Experimental beta<\/a>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=42824\">iTunes 7.4.3<\/a>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=42869\">Free Download Manager 2.5 Build 715<\/a>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/index.php?act=view&amp;id=42885\">Pidgin 2.2.1<\/a>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/fileforum.betanews.com\/detail\/Adobe_Flash_Player_for_Windows_Firefox_Mozilla_Netscape_Opera\/964714156\/2\">Adobe Flash Player for Windows (Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape &amp; 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Part Deux<\/a>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsua.net\/2007\/10\/04\/commenting-further-on-roi-and-social-computing-part-i\/\">Commenting further on ROI and Social Computing &#8211; Part I<\/a>      <\/li>\n<li><strong>IBM &#8212;       <br \/><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/quickrblog.com\/?itemid=113\">New Lotus Quickr demo video<\/a>      <br \/>For all the old Lotus Notes users: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbrill.com\/ebrill\/edbrill.nsf\/dx\/end-of-service-for-notesdomino-6.5.x-timeline-announced?opendocument&amp;comments#anc1\">End of service for Notes\/Domino 6.5.x timeline announced<\/a>      <\/li>\n<li><strong>Facebook &#8212; <\/strong>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www-128.ibm.com\/developerworks\/blogs\/page\/Turbo?entry=gmail_gets_facebooked&amp;ca=drs-bl\">Gmail Gets Facebooked<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazing picture taken of a Solar Eclipse on the same time every evening.   <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap071002.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"id\" height=\"381\" src=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0710\/tutulemma2_tezel.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>    <br \/><b><em><font size=\"1\">Credit &amp; 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