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In fact, the opposite seems to be true - the Olympics was successfully sued over their website being inaccessible, and so was Target. As a consequence, it seems, more and more business are finding reason to make a case for web accessibility - whether they consider themselves a target or not.

ACT is *the capital* city of Australia, seat of federal government, part time home of australian pollies (politicians), home of australian federal public service, houses adf hq (moved from vic barracks in melbourne - my home), home of various australian intelligence agencies (asis, asio) , location for diplomatic embassies, etc. Also home of Australian National University, Andrew Tridgell of Samba and rsync fame.

Canberra is *not underfunded*. It is in a sense an *artifical* city created as a political compromise to house the australian capital - after a fight broke betweem Victoria and Sydney around federation around 1901. The solution Canberra, a territory created in the NSW outback. Its sole purpose it to house government and its associated functions.

as for being less influential ... in australia its the national capital and houses the federal government - q.e.d. As for the rest of the world ... what does it matter?

I guess there's XML and there's XML and getting between them is not necessarily easy.

Microsoft made a big deal about the most recent versions of Office writing out XML, but that was because XML was a buzzword, sounded as if it might be more open than ".doc", and was essentially a selling point.

From what I've read, people have been underwhelmed with the XML coming out.

But your question is a good one when you see the potential for XSLT transformations that enable OpenOffice to import and export DocBook XML.

If only a similar set of transformations could be developed for OpenOffice to import and export the XML of the latest version of Microsoft Office. From what I understand, the schema is not documented and the formatting and rendering rules for documents are still kept a private affair, just as it has been for .doc files.

You're still locked-in, dude!

A few memorable points: Visiting a computer startup in Boston, Washington to NY by train, Canadian Pacific train across Canada, a Californian diner with everyone in baseball caps, a walk across the George Washington Bridge to Hoboken late at night.

One thing I did not get to see was the subterranean cafeteria in the Carlsbad Caverns.

Oddly while I have written a few hi-tech travel reports and a book on the subject, it has never occurred to me to do a report about North America. On my one trip I found the place technically unsophisticated. Perhaps that was because it was a long time ago, or I just went to the wrong places.

ps: At one stage I found myself standing on a desk in the ABC office in NY, poking a hole in the ceiling with a screwdriver to put a computer cable through. I glanced down and got vertigo, as this way half way up the Rockefeller Centre.

A few memorable points: Visiting a computer startup in Boston, Washington to NY by train, Canadian Pacific train across Canada, a Californian diner with everyone in baseball caps, a walk across the George Washington Bridge to Hoboken late at night.

One thing I did not get to see was the subterranean cafeteria in the Carlsbad Caverns.

Oddly while I have written a few hi-tech travel reports and a book on the subject, it has never occurred to me to do a report about North America. On my one trip I found the place technically unsophisticated. Perhaps that was because it was a long time ago, or I just went to the wrong places.

ps: At one stage I found myself standing on a desk in the ABC office in NY, poking a hole in the ceiling with a screwdriver to put a computer cable through. I glanced down and got vertigo, as this way half way up the Rockefeller Centre.

Sorry, I'm a little peeved at writing the same darn URLs every time this comes up.

• Technical description by the ACT Electoral Commission
• Comments by a user in the Australian Computer Society on how the system worked in practice.
• Executive Summary of how it worked.
• 1 MB PDF full report.
• And finally.... The Source