Carts, horses, operating systems and data

"When it comes to the risk of data loss, I believe it is sensible to err on the side of paranoia." -- Separating the cart from the horse

Open source, closed source, brands and chaos

Illusions of chaos, illusions of calm is about brands and how the concept of branding works with software. It is about how the varying manifestations of branding swivel the telescope over the ever-present primordial soup of non-chaos that typifies all types of software development.

Pulling XMas Greetings

I just had an odd thought. By writing "Happy XMas" here I am partly "sending/pushing" XMas greetings but also relying on readers who use RSS to "receive/pull" their own XMas greeting.
Sender -> intermediation -> receiver. Point-to-point meets publish/subscribe. The words "send" and "receive" blurr into theory-only black and white absolutes, hidden behind a thickening fog of shades of grey.

Interesting...

Anyway, Happy XMas.

Lets all change our names to be 1024 digit numbers

If that proves to be impractical, lets make it easier to find people as opposed to things on the Web.

Abstract thought for the day

Any sufficiently abstract art form is indistinguisable from rubbish.

Plone in NZ Government

Article on the use of Plone by New Zealand government agencies makes interesting reading for Plone fans. As an out-of-th-box bag'o'tricks for creating CMS/website solutions - on Windows or on Linux - Plone is tough to beat.

UDDI heretics

UDDI registry shutdown. This XMas could be remembered as the time when various WS-you-must-be-joking turkeys finally got stuffed. The UDDI heretic in me applauds this trend.
Steve has a nice phrase for it.