My favourite piece of open source CMS software has added another significant scalp, with http://www.whitehouse.gov making the switch to Drupal.
The move has been orchestrated by Dries himself, through Aquia, along with some third party contractors based in the US. (More details and specifics are available via techPresident).
Much is being made of the Obama administration, or at least some aspect of it, making the “open source choice”. With a foot in each camp (both the closed and open source worlds), I have to wonder if the move is significant and, in …

What a pleasure to see that, on the day that HP unveil their stunning beautiful netbook interface for Ubuntu, we get to see Microsoft’s Chief Engineers admit “We messed up” and Windows 7 is deemed less secure than Vista.
Geordie LaForge these guys aint.
Viva la open source.

About half way down this thread there is a solution to the slow start-up that many users of Firefox 3 are experiencing.
Works for me, bring FF3 back the top of my browser tree.