I recently replaced the blosxom calendar plugin on my right-hand sidebar with the flatarchives. One interesting side effect is that it shows a remarkable consistency in my blogging patterns over the past year and a half. July, August, and November have been heavy blogging months for me, whereas September has been particularly dry. There’s a [...]
Doug Engelbart, the inspiration behind Blue Oxen Associates and one of our advisors, gave a talk for the Bay Area Future Salon last night. I’ve heard him give this talk a hundred times, but it’s always an interesting experience. I tend to pay more attention to the audience than to Doug — observing their reactions [...]
Eric Sinclair spotted this gem: “Let’s Paint the Town Purple.” The author makes a very compelling case, but we’re not going to change our color scheme anytime soon. (4RT) (For Purple Number-specific hilarity, don’t miss Mark Pilgrim’s “Pink Numbers.”) (4RU)
I’ve mentioned Identity Commons over and over again for the past year. (See “Identity Commons: Empowering the Individual” for a detailed introduction.) Identity Commons global i-names are now available, and until January 25, 2005, you can purchase the rights to an i-name for 50 years for only $25. I’ve posted more details at the Watering [...]
Blue Oxen Associates now has a company blog in addition to its collaboratory blog. Be sure to check it out and subscribe to its RSS feed. (4QM)
Trudging through the surge of commentary in the blogosphere following the elections, Kellan Elliott-McCrea‘s post jumped out at me. He wrote: (4Q2) There is a political theory that says that people who disagree with you aren’t fundamentally bad people, but misguided, or perhaps coming from different backgrounds. Having just spent a couple of hours [...]
Gerry Gleason, who has done a ton of work for PurpleWiki recently, and I have had an ongoing discussion about when to use base classes in Perl. The reason the question comes up at all is that Perl base classes do not behave the way base classes do in “real” object-oriented languages. Because Perl does [...]
I spent some time today with Gerry Gleason, who was in town for the weekend. I was telling him about a Coding Sprint Blue Oxen was planning, and he asked what those were. When I explained them to him, he said, “Oh, we used to do those for NFS. We called them Connectivity Parties.” Back [...]
Jamie Dinkelacker and I had a very stimulating conversation about all things collaboration and Doug Engelbart last night. Something he said about the IETF reminded me of something. If you check out IETF RFC 2 (circa 1969), you’ll notice alphanumeric references in front of each paragraph. Those are equivalent to what we call hierarchical identifiers [...]
Lisa Piazza pointed me to the WikiPrayer, which she discovered in an article on Wikis in Educause Review: (2S6) Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, The courage to edit the pages I can, And the wisdom to know the difference (2S7)
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