Monday, April 15, 2002

"I'd be astonished," said Steven B. Lipner, Microsoft's director of security assurance, "if the open-source community has in total done as many man-years of computer security code reviews as we have done in the last two months." (NYT) Why Microsoft's "more man-years" claim is "absolute crap" 2:56:36 PM

Nice. Just got done meeting with yet another consultant brought in to help deliver a prototype Crystal Reports solutions, meant to replace the system we've already developed. This will be the third in less than a month, and he also admits that he doesn't have the technical skills necessary to do the complete prototype. In any event, I think we're slowly winning over our reluctant "sponsor." This unbiased, third-party consultant told us several times that what we've built is excellent. And, in front of the client, said that the code was extremely easy to work with, and that he was impressed by the overall quality of the application. Yeah, baby. 2:51:58 PM

A Word Map for Wonderland? Curiouser and Curiouser. A new web site turns literary classics into interactive maps in which the relationships between words are explored. By Matthew Mirapaul. [New York Times: Arts] Cool. Very cool. 12:22:20 AM