“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they use open source software.”
By Bobbie Johnson, “When using open source makes you an enemy of the state“, guardian.co.uk, Feb 23rd, 2010.
Canada is already “special”. We, Canadians, welcome these innovative countries!
The delirious pace of WordPress 3 development has been delicious!
I’ve enjoyed not being able to keep up at all.
The sprint is on to feature freeze!
There’s going to be a patch sprint of sorts for 3.0 this week. Please grab a ticket, triage, patch or test:http://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/32. The feature freeze is March 1, so everything still on that report in 7 days from now will be punted to a future release.
There are a few incomplete tasks out there that need to get done to finish implementing new features (both small ones on that report, and the major 3.0 features). If you’re interested in helping but aren’t sure where you can, venture over to #wordpress-dev.
Andrew Nacin on wpdevel, Feb 22th, 2010
Jane Wells puts up a “Patches Welcome” sign on a “a handful of small UI enhancement tickets that are low priority for the hardcore devs, but that I’d still like to see make it into 3.0.” Jane will “try to post a couple of pet tickets each day throughout the sprint week that is coming up.”
Better, stronger, faster blog network creation and management will be huge!
Mostly I can’t wait for the twenty ten theme, and the slow death of the (poorly) justified text that may have been the Kubrick themes only shortcoming.
PS. Emphasis above and below (bold) is all mine.
PPS. WordPress 3 will look so good in the title of the next technical book you write 
Wednesday, Feb 23, 2010 Update: Jane has posted “Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!“ with details on the WordPress Development Blog, including the tidbit that WordPress 3 will have much improved menu management.
Will Your Baby By Covered in an Emergency?
If you are pregnant, it is important to check with your doctor for advice on traveling. However, finding insurance can be a problem, since travel insurance companies see pregnant travelers as high risk group. Most travel insurance providers will insure up to 9 weeks before expected date of delivery , beyond this, it becomes more difficult. Therefore it is important to look at the insurance policy fine prints to understand what is not covered in their exclusions.
Lets look at how Canadian travel insurance companies have their exclusions on pregnancy.
The list they provide seems to be incomplete.
Of course, coverage is important for:
Most of the Canadian travel insurance companies I checked seem not to cover (1) the mother if within the last 9 weeks, and will not cover (2) the unborn baby at all.
Are we civilized?
Won’t Cover the Baby
Here is the language TD CanadaTrust Insurance uses:
Exclusion: If a Dependent Child is born while the child’s mother is outside of her province of residence, the Dependent Child will not be insured with respect to that trip.
and
Pregnancy
- pregnancy or childbirths within 9 weeks of expected delivery date;
- any complication relating to pregnancy that occurs in the last 9 weeks leading up to the expected delivery date, or after the expected delivery date;
- any child born during a Covered Trip;
TD Visa Travel Center sells another company’s insurance– ironic and confusing right — Canada Life:
16 a) Routine pre-natal care,
b) a child born during your trip,
c) in the 9 weeks before or after the expected date of delivery, complications of pregnancy and/or childbirth.
CoverMe (Manulife Financial – The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company) FAQ:
Unless otherwise stated in the policy, in order to be covered under this plan, children have to be at least 31 days old.
Might?
TIC Travel Insurance Coordinators Ltd:
EHM13 Routine or elective treatment for pregnancy within the first 32 weeks of the pregnancy.
EHM14 Pregnancy, childbirth or complications thereof after the 32nd week of pregnancy.
Will!
Pacific Blue Cross “benefits“:
2. Other exclusions
f. Pregnancy of the Covered person and complications arising from the pregnancy within 8 weeks preceding the expected date of delivery.
g. Premature birth of a child if the anticipated trip is scheduled to take place during the last 8 weeks of pregnancy or during the first 8 weeks following the expected delivery date.
My wife phoned and confirmed the coverage with Pacific Blue Cross.