Damn ... to early in morning for me

0,056 liters per 100 km, doable.

But there's also trucks. At least the mid- and long distance tranportation should replaced by (electrical) trains.

No, Vista ME seems more proper

Yeah, otherwise the company would fold.

We have some 50+ Joomla sites set up for all kind of groups from student projects and research documentation to plain courses in web design for testing.

The framework works great for our needs. I can't think of anything we haven't been able to do, neither function wise or design wise. But yeah the very square section/categories thing is the first we skip.

The only immidiate negative thing I can think of is the stuborn use of tables even in the smallest of modules. That makes details in your design pretty locked down. Also because of this many Joomla sites will look the same.

We use mod_placehere by Eike Pierstorff extensively since with it we can have multiple content areas active thru the sites. Very useful.

If you know only the smallest of PHP and css making your own template is very easy.

I've been thru most other open CMSes aswell, drupla, Typo3, all of those. But we tend to return to Joomla as soon we just want the pages up.

Sadly many oldstyle one-html-file-per-page people seems to have a hard time getting the concept of CMSes, though that has nothing to do with Joomla per se.

There are a number of free (as in beer) and commercial addons. The commercial ones are not always the best. So if you have special needs browsing around usually pays off.

Good luck!

To me it's like rather easy. It's a choice between a closed service based system or an open one.

There are some open ones like datamatrix and semi open ones like QR-codes. Both already has wide usage. Maybe not in the US. Yet. But they're also bigger in size and not fancy looking like beetag or this oldnew color based one from MS.

A subscribed code is considerably smaller physically but it has shorter lifespan. It works only as long as I pay the fee to the services provider. Also, as you say, I have no knowledge where the info of hits on the codes ends up. So, the're small but we don't have complete controll over the usage and they cost us as long as we want to use them.

Open system and system that has the info within the code will work as long as they're readable. They contain the info/url so there's no interpreting middle man. If we only care we can set up the same system to save the statistics on what phones are used, when, from where etc. It's bigger but open and are 'safer' to use.

Even more important: People want it easy. The mobile phone is the obvious hw-reader but we don't want to mess with several applications for different types of code. So by NOT using systems like data matrix/QR-codes we learn the public to use other ones for instance serviced based ones. So eventually when the service based system becomes unusable or to highly priced we're faced with a "strange" open system code not the public doesn't understand or are willing to learn how to use.

QR-codes, Data Matrix, Beetagg, etc . there are alot of 2D codes around.
Now MS has decided to add yet another one.

The advantage of keeping the info inside the code is you are not dependant on a serviceprovider to interpret the code. That's maybe a key feature here when involving MS (and Beetagg an a few more).

Many services uses a subscription based system where a 2D-code, only has a function as long as the subscription beeing paid. Guess what system MS in using? Real info or interpreted/serverbased?

Please stay away from those and use codes that has real info in them, just like normal barcodes.

LED emitters usually emit narrow-band spectrums of light around each color (red, blue, green, etc.).
So even if you mix red, green, and blue LEDs to acheive white you would not get full spectrum light.

I would not want LEDs as main light source more than shorter time spans.

You seem informated.
Are there any example code we can see?