John Brockman’s “What’s
Your Law?” has garnered quite some attention. Some of the greatest minds of today have offered their own proverbs and truths; it’s quite a good read. It’s also overwhelmingly lengthy, but being stuck home ill over the weekend I read the whole thing and want to save a few gems.
In the […]
Monthly Archives: January 2004
Law of the land
January 15, 2004 – 12:00 am
Intraapplication memory protection
January 12, 2004 – 12:00 am
I’ve gotten spoiled by modern PC
OSes. I typically have an uptime of several weeks, and reboot only for major OS updates or new versions of SideTrack. This (along with Expos) enables my habit of using open windows as task management: leaving an email open as a separate window to remind me to respond, […]
Save us
January 11, 2004 – 12:00 am
This has got to be a parody. I believed it, until I read about drive-through tithe kiosks, learned how Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and
Communism, and Ryan found the matrimony thong. Still, if I were Richard Dawkins, I think I’d publicly accept the creation science challenge.
Tokens
January 10, 2004 – 12:00 am
Catching up on Atom news, I learned from a Mark
Pilgrim article about the UsernameToken profile for OASIS’s web
services security specification. Dj vu! We’ve used a similar home-brewed scheme for inter-application authentication for 4 years ranging from small ASP applications to web services in large J2EE apps.
Receivers
January 10, 2004 – 12:00 am
It seems everyone is excited about the SLIM boxes. I’m not sure why, when the same money can get you Elgato’s EyeHome, which not only receives MP3s, but lets you interact with iTunes, and display your photo library, video, and web pages. Personally, though, I’m not excited until I can get an EyeTV
300.
Implicit assertions
January 9, 2004 – 12:00 am
Here’s a fun quote from Tony
Hoare’s Towards the Verifying
Compiler:
A global program analysis tool called PREfix is now widely used by Microsoft development teams. PREfix works by analysing all paths through each method body, and it gives a report for each path on which there may be a defect. The trouble is that most of […]
Plink, plonk-
January 7, 2004 – 12:00 am
Speaking of social network software, he’s hoping that PLINK comes to dominate this space. Being based on FOAF, it’s the only one that’s inherently extensible, doesn’t try to hide our personal information like it’s their own intellectual property, and, get this, allows links to your own page. Whoa, that’s going out on a […]
Steve is in your network
January 7, 2004 – 12:00 am
A recent invitation to LinkedIn reminded me of the world of social network software, so I visited Friendster as well. Amusingly, the random connection highlighted on login was Woz, from only 2 degrees of separation. I don’t think that gives me the right to borrow a Segway, though.
Railroaded
January 6, 2004 – 12:00 am
It’s quite disturbing to watch an organization (in this case, a business partner) being manipulated by ownership to maximize short-term profit at the expense of the viability of the company, and sacrificing the security of many competent people.
Chocolate Chips
January 5, 2004 – 12:00 am
Hershey’s new Swoops are quite yummy (at least the York peppermint and Reeses peanut butter flavors). You’d think, though, with a $30,000,000 advertising budget, they’d have a web site.
