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{ Monthly Archives } June 2007

Henry VIII’s Wives

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 […]

2007 06 28 Books Comments (1)

Summer in Oxford

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 […]

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2007 06 27 Conference
Travel Comments (1)

Privacy and Identity

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 […]

2007 06 27 Identity and Privacy Comments (0)

Thank You

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 […]

2007 06 26 Books
General Comments (0)

Papers and Slides

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 […]

2007 06 24 General Comments (3)

Saturday Reading

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 […]

2007 06 23 General Comments (0)