Here’s a simple truth when it comes to security, courtesy of Bruce Schneier:
Security systems fail in one of two ways. They can fail to stop the bad guy, and they can mistakenly stop the good guy. The TSA likes to measure its success by looking at the forbidden items they have prevented from being carried [...]
Hibernate 3.0 was released today. I hadn’t realized that it was coming out so soon, I guess it’s time for me to at least start looking at what it brings to the table and what’s going to be required for me to migrate to it. I’ll need Spring to support Hibernate 3 before I [...]
One performance test shows Ruby on Rails to be 8 times slower than the equivalent application written using Java, Spring, and Hibernate. I expect a response from the Ruby community, but I’ve read that Ruby is slow in other places as well. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, Ruby is a lot younger than Java. Companies like [...]
Personal computer and interface design pioneer Jef Raskin passed away yesterday.
This week’s tempest in a teapot here in the weblog world arrived when Michael Gorman, the president-elect of the American Library Association fired a broadside against weblogs in general as a counterreaction to a vicious response from bloggers to an op-ed he wrote about Google in December. I really have no desire to attempt to [...]
For all the handwringing after the last election about why Democrats failed to do as well as they’d hoped, not enough attention was paid to the fact that the Republicans profited from outright ignorance among the electorate. How many of the 47% of Americans who think that Saddam Hussein helped plan and execute the attacks [...]
I fixed the problem with my new hard drive. When I installed my hard drive controller, Windows XP detected it and installed it without even a hitch. This, unfortunately, gave me a false sense of security. I knew that the controller supported large hard drives (that’s why I bought it), and Windows knew exactly what [...]
Want to see where a mainstream journalist can pick up where weblogs leave off? Take a look at this item from Boing Boing. A guy posts a plea about needing a kidney transplant on the Web, he manages to find a compatible donor (not via the Web). Some kind of group that has [...]
Evan Williams has started a new venture related to podcasting. I’m generally a laggard when it comes to jumping on with new trends, so it shouldn’t surprise you that podcasting leaves me cold. Here’s why: if I’m can’t skim it, I’m not interested. I don’t like to watch the news on television, or listen to [...]
So here’s what the Editor in Chief of the New York Times has to say about weblogs:
There are, of course, blogs where you encounter intelligent, provocative debate and reflection, and I value them, but it seems to be a world in which people quickly harvest the stuff that conforms to what they already believe, where [...]