Here’s a review of Antonia Fraser’s The Wives of Henry VIII (there also seems to be an updated version, The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Women in History)), which the bookclub picked, partially because I’d read it before and thought it was interesting, partially because most of the bookclub members knew a little about that [...]
Most years I get to speak at the XML Summer School put on by CSW in late July in Oxford, England. Last year I didn’t go since I’d just had a baby 6 weeks before and the family succeeded in talking me out of it. This year I’m going again. It should be a lot [...]
One of the better pieces on identity and privacy that I’ve read recently, and well worth everyone reading, whether you do anything much with identity management or not, is from David Weinberger. Identity management in an unequal world discusses how when signing up for things is easier, people can take advantage of that to ask [...]
To the anonymous reader of my blog who bought books on Amazon using my associates link, thank you! Not so much for the few cents it brought me but for the fact that it means you thought enough of what I wrote to check out the books and spend your own money to get a [...]
When I was chairing the XML Conference, one of the things I tried very hard to convince speakers to do was to write up their talks as proceedings, and not just use slides. The main reason for that was that 6 months after giving a talk, oftentimes the speakers can’t figure out what they meant [...]
If you’re looking for something to cheer up a grey day, leave you shaking your head about some people’s behaviour, and generally entertain you, try this story about a DVD-renting outfit’s exchanges with a lawyer. So far I’ve only read a few of the sections, but they’re priceless (a lawyer who copies the other side [...]
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