more than a piece of paper

The Constitution is more than a piece of paper.

Get over reporting the Bush administration as though it were a credible source.

things like this happen

Maybe there's something deeply wrong when the response to an eight year old bringing a gun to his daycare and that gun shooting a seven year old is "things like this happen".

Things like this do happen, and I mean no criticism of a mother who, rightly, is looking for a way to recover from and move on from this incident. Clearly best for the children involved to find a way to continue to feel safe. But what do we do to make things like this stop happening?

A new blog on electronic security

Sorry, yet another blog, this time on electronic security.

I proliferate blogs in an effort to provide subject-specific forums. A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Michael Swaine is my hero

I'd love to write like Michael Swaine.

The network is the computer

Writely, a free online word processor and Word-like document host, with collaboration and permissions. Wiki-like, but more document-centric.

And yet another service-on-the-web model.

My dad now has a blog

I just helped my dad set up a blog .

Unicon is hiring

Unicon , for whom I work part time, is hiring .

Using del.icio.us to track reading

I'm trying to figure out what del.icio.us is likely to be good for. I like very much the idea of these generic mostly free-form tools that can be put to adhoc uses. In general in IT this is a way we succeed: delivering general, flexible services (email, web hosting, a portal) that the end users can figure out how to get value out of. (Contrast the approach of building very specific tools for particular purposes, highly instructionally-related technolgy applications, etc.).One thing it might be good for is quickly tracking what it is that I'm currently reading and what I've read .

Now I just need a portal to bridge all these tools.