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{ Monthly Archives } May 2007

Naming Names

Phil Karlton said (at least once in my hear­ing any­way) that nam­ing things was one of the two hard tasks in com­puter sci­ence (read­ing X Toolkit Intrins­ics — C Lan­guage Inter­face, to which he con­trib­uted, will give you some idea why he said it); I dis­covered the truth of this yet again when writ­ing the […]

2007 05 24 Identity and Privacy Comments (16)

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert’s Stum­bling on Hap­pi­ness is rightly pop­u­lar (I had to wait some time before it became avail­able at the local lib­rary). Des­pite the title, it’s not one of these “seven steps to real hap­pi­ness” books. It’s more a book that tells you why people’s expect­a­tions of what will or should make them happy are […]

2007 05 22 Books Comments (0)

Miscellaneous Sysadmin

I’m usu­ally the chief sysad­min in the fam­ily for the things like the printer and the Win­dows boxes. In the interests of mak­ing it easier for myself in the future and hope­fully oth­ers, here are a couple of things I fixed this week. For some reason the printer, an old but still very pro­duct­ive HP Color […]

2007 05 18 Technology Comments (1)

Evacuating the A-380

Tim poin­ted me at the video of the test run for evac­u­at­ing the A-380 — it’s worth a look. I noticed, how­ever, that it wasn’t exactly a very real­istic test. If you read the page rather than just leap­ing to the video, you’ll see the dis­cus­sion of an earlier MD-11 test where a woman over […]

2007 05 12 Travel Comments (1)

Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day, in its best mani­fest­a­tion, is a day to cel­eb­rate fam­ily and togeth­er­ness and chil­dren, as well as moth­ers. On this day though, it’s also good to spare a thought for those who would like to be moth­ers but can’t be, for whatever reason, and for those who’ve lost their moth­ers, in whatever way. […]

2007 05 07 Family
General Comments (1)

Sun and OpenID

I’ve been heads-down on a pro­ject which was just announced (though not yet up and run­ning, so I’m still work­ing hard with the rest of the team on final details) about Sun put­ting up an OpenID IdP (iden­tity pro­vider). The idea is that this IdP will verify that the per­son using an OpenID of the […]

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2007 05 07 Identity and Privacy Comments (0)