Portland's citywide wifi access launched. Right now it covers SW downtown Portland and industrial SE (coverage map here). It will eventually cover ALL of Portland. Portland's Future Awesome coverage here. Discussion group here.
Firebug 1.0 Beta, a Firefox extension to troubleshoot and monitor client-side web-dev stuff. Related: FirefoxWeb Developer extension.
Miguel de Icaza on Groklaw's over-the-top analysis of Novell's support of OpenXML in OpenOffice (it's true, Groklaw has demonstrated a bit of ignorance here. Almost every distro's interpretation of a project can be a little unique)
Last week was Ubuntu Open Week, where newbies, the curious, and the besotted could meet up in different irc channels and talk about specific topics. Here are the logs.