Alex Brown

i now pronounce you british

Of course, I could be wrong... (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009

From THE SUN : An East Sussex vicar was under arrest last night as cops grilled him over 180 sham marriages - staged so illegal immigrants can stay here. Rev Alex Brown, 61, was held in a dawn swoop following an 18-month probe into an alleged scam in which Eastern Europeans and other foreigners were able to claim residency by tying the knot. Immigration officials had suspended applications from anyone...

• Vicar arrested over 180 sham weddings - The Telegraph

Griffin Brown Announces Open Source XML Validation Tools

Griffin Brown Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009

Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2 July 2009 . Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd has is pleased to announce Probatron , a new set of free and open source validation tools for XML. Built on 10 years of experience developing and deploying XML validation systems, Probatron is designed to perform Quality Assurance (QA) on XML-based information. This can prevent potentially costly data quality faults from...

Vicar suspected of sham weddings for illegals

The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009

A vicar, 61-year-old Alex Brown, was arrested on suspicion of organizing 180 sham weddings for illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe, the Daily Mail reports. He was one of four people being held today, as well as a Ukrainian man, a Latvian woman – believed to be one of the brides – and an Armenian male, the [...]

NightLink: Larry Mayer Predicts Starters

Windy City Gridiron (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009

Of course, it is too early to effectively try and predict who will fill the starting positions in the upcoming season, but if there is anyone who has insight to such matters, it is Larry Mayer. Training camp will will answer a lot of questions, and I'm sure that even Larry's opinion will change come August, but here is a look at what he thinks right now: OFFENSE: Jay Cutler at quarterback, Matt Forte...

WG4/WG5 Meetings

Doug Mahugh (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009

I’ve just returned last night from a week in Copenhagen, where I attended the SC34 WG4/WG5 meetings that were hosted by Danish Standards. As usual, it was several days of non-stop document format discussions, in the meetings as well as over breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Carlsbergs. A typical comment from one of the delegates Wednesday afternoon: “let’s take a break from sitting down...

Australia: flat, unconvincing, undecided

The Corridor (a cricket blog) (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009

Four days against Sussex hasn’t helped Ricky Ponting decide on his lineup for the first Test. Have a read of my colleague’s bulletin, the whirlwind and unstoppable force that is Alex Brown: These are worrying times for the Australians. A flat final day performance on a flat Hove pitch has given Ricky Ponting few signposts as [...]

DOWNLOAD: Sara Lov - Animals

RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009

Sara Lov graced this space back in December with a cover of the Arcade Fire's "My Body Is A Cage," an intriguing but not entirely revealing look at the Devics singer's solo work. This is what we were waiting for, a polite–and original!–duet with Alex Brown Church, also known as Sea Wolf , that we imagine is some form of Silverlake synergy only we do not live there so we can't...

Scarlet Soho’s Speak Your Mind by Alexander Brown

LCD TV Phoenix (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009

Alex Brown and Graeme Pearce of Ruth Render create a home-made home entertainment system that helps Scarlet Soho go televisual. And Alex’s pixel breakdown graphics are cool. Scarlet Soho Speak Your Mind (Major Records) Prod co: Ruth Render Director/design: Alexander Brown Producer: Graeme Pearce DoP: Pearce Crowley Post: Alexander Brown Watch: Quicktime movie

The Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign

Click World News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009

eldavojohn writes "Groklaw is examining the possibility of an anti-ODF whisper campaign and the effects it has had on the ODF and OOXML Wikipedia articles. In the ODF article, Alex Brown bends the truth to make it seem like no one is supporting ODF, and that it is a flawed and incomplete standard. From the conclusion, 'So what is one to do? You obviously can't trust Wikipedia whatsoever in this...

The Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign

Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009

eldavojohn writes "Groklaw is examining the possibility of an anti-ODF whisper campaign and the effects it has had on the ODF and OOXML Wikipedia articles. In the ODF article, Alex Brown bends the truth to make it seem like no one is supporting ODF, and that it is a flawed and incomplete standard. From the conclusion, 'So what is one to do? You obviously can't trust Wikipedia whatsoever in this...

Rob Weir Exposes an Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign

Groklaw (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009

Alex Brown, the convenor of the OOXML BRM, has been editing Wikipedia's article on ODF. That strikes me odd, like finding out Steve Jobs had been editing the Microsoft Zune page. Some things are simply inappropriate. It puzzles me why Wikipedia allows it, frankly. If you read the talk page on ODF, you'll see that there are others there trying mightily to spin the article on ODF more negatively than...

• Rob Weir Exposes an Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign (Groklaw) - LWN.net

ODF Lies and Whispers

Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009

There is an interesting disinformation campaign being waged against ODF. You won't see this FUD splattered across the front pages of blogs or press releases. It is the kind of stuff that is spread by email and whispers, and you or I rarely will see it. But occasionally some of this does cross my desk, and I'd like to share with you some recent examples. First up is this case, from a small Baltic republic,...

Who Brought This Back Up? Oh, Wait... It Was Bears Players

Windy City Gridiron (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009

How many people have brought this up? How many people have shot this idea down? And how many people actually think it could happen? Yes, the Plaxico Burress to the Bears idea is steadily trucking along. We have berated the sports writers who continually stir up dust on the subject, but it seems that Plaxico has more supporters in Chicago than originally thought. Who are the lastest folks to raise the...

OOXML BRM Convenor (Alex Brown) Joins the Pro-Mirosoft Wikipedia Spinners

Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009

New (but familiar) people join Microsoft's cause against ODF interoperability

Staring Down at 80 Bears in the Making - Early Roster Predictions

Windy City Gridiron (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009

Reading that we were going to be at the 80 man roster limit once we finish getting our rookies signed really made me start looking at who we have on the roster now, and at what positions. Are we on our way to being a well-oiled machine, or do we have severe pruning to be done early? Here goes my attempt at a very simplified breakdown of positions and possible cuts, and then I'd like to see everyone...