• Roland: Phil Wolff's Klogging 101 HTML slides
• Roland: Brent Ashley's post, Get up to speed on K-Logging
• Jim on "weblogs as lab notebooks": 'Superarchives' could hold all scholarly output

For someone like me who's now in his 0x28s, this is encouraging: Doc notes that Marc Canter "likes hiring people over 40 because their high-mileage wisdom and long-term perspectives are necessary for a company's durable success."

Main point of article: "Linux and other forms of infrastructural software--as well as all the protocols that together make up the Net . . . is not only that it's open and free, but that it's transparent. It is see-thru infrastructure. In fact, what makes it infrastructural is the fact that you can see through it. You can trust it because it has no secrets."

Doc continues, "Bill [Gates] says, 'Trustworthy Computing is computing that is as available, reliable and secure as electricity, water services and telephony.' We should note that all those services are pure infrastructure whose workings are mostly transparent. Yet for all its popularity, Windows lacks that same transparency, which makes it inherently less infrastructural."
1:58:15 PM |   

In a related story, I see Joe Conason's column at Salon, Lou Dobbs downgrades President Bush.

I particularly like Joe's line, "When George W. Bush talks about the importance of honest business practices and corporate integrity, it's like listening to Bill Clinton lecture about chastity. (Which Clinton would, thankfully, never do.)"
11:45:36 AM |