Still feeling like crap.

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TinyApps.org is a good-hearted and useful site that makes small applications available, mainly for free. The site’s asking for small donations. It’d be a shame to lose this site.

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Steve Yost has set up the text of last night’s State of the Union so that people can comment on every paragraph. He’s using the “Document Review” feature of his excellent Quicktopic site. [Disclosure: I've done business with Steve.]

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Time remaining in the Bush administration:

[I've removed the applet because it apparently was significantly affecting the loading time for my blog. It's a countdown timer.]

Pointed to by Gary Stock, taken from here.

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David is sick today. He has a sore throat, runny nose, a headache and is tired. So please excuse him from blogging today.

Could you please ask one of his friends to bring him his homework?

Thank you.

Signed,
My Mom

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Peter Jung has a new blog that so far is about politics and has a sense of humor. If you love da Dubya, you will not like his site.

BTW, from this site I learned that Joe Lieberman called the commuting of all death sentences in Illinois “shockingly wrong.” He added, “It did terrible damage to the credibility of our system of justice.” Joe Orthodox maybe ought to check the rabbis’ opinion about how rarely the death penalty should be imposed because human judgment is so fallible.

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Jim Montgomery points us to this despairing ebay listing.

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Phil Becker has a helpful update on Palladium, the Microsoft project to provide “secure” computing. Its name has now been changed and, more important, it is going to be made a standard part of Windows over the next few years. In fact, that Microsoft has moved from the “hot” name “Palladium” to a name that can be neither pronounced nor remembered — Next-generation Secure Computing Base — indicates that Microsoft wants to lower the project’s visibility and make it sound not like an optional product but like a service that will be buried inside of its Windows brand.

[Thanks for the link, Eric.]

Eric and Andre Durand have written a white paper for PingID about federated digital ID. This is from the abstract:

While existing identity management solutions can help reduce the inefficiencies associated with managing users, roles, permissions and access to information, there are a growing number of applications that require the inter-company (federated) exchange of identity-based information (e.g. single sign-on, web services etc.). This document explores the complexity, requirements and merits associated with wide-scale deployment of identity federation, including strategies for pooling resources and the creation of standardized business frameworks for assuring quality, maintaining security, managing liability, reducing risk and resolving disputes.

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I got sent a copy of the latest issue of “Quotes, Notes & Anecdotes,” a 116-page journal of sparkling quotations suitable for use by after-dinner speakers (e.g., “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best” — Bob Talbert, US journalist, 1982). The accompanying note explained that I was sent this issue because I’m quoted in it. Cool! Unfortunately, they didn’t say which page. So, I quickly thumbed through, and there, amidst quotations from King James I, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Howard Zinn, and, well, a guy who parachutes with a dachsund tucked into his pocket, there I find the insight so keen, so piercing, so arresting, that it has earned me a spot in this pantheon of blurbers:

We get to kick in the teeth the idealized — and constricted — set of behaviors known as professionalism.

David Weinberger (1950-), Canadian author; on the pleasure people get in pointing out the errors and goofs of the famous, as discovered in movies, articles, books.

That’s it? That’s the cleverest, pithiest, zing-iest thing I ever wrote? I don’t even know what that has to do with professionalism and I wrote the damn sentence.

BTW, I am not a Canadian author. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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I’ll be gone all day with no access to the Net. We’re visiting colleges with our daughter. So, try not to say anything too interesting in your blog today, ok?

Thanks.

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