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Saturday, August 17, 2002 |
Rene Descartes. "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." [Quotes of the Day]
A fitting close to the end of a burst of blogging.
2:06:47 AM 
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Free Culture: OSCON2002. Get the complete transcript of Lawrence's keynote presentation Free Culture made on July 24, 2002 at the Open Source Convention. [Lessig Log]
Read or listen to this along with the article below from 'The Atlantic' and see if you aren't as depressed (or enraged) as I am.
2:05:53 AM
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The Atlantic | September 2002 | Homeland Insecurity | Mann
This article captures some of the proper paranoia that Bruce Schneier can evoke in any of us. Airport security that causes massive chaos when people evade X Ray machines. People who use the same passwords on many systems. And that's really just the tip of the iceberg.
What's the solution? Not biometrics (fingerprint scans, eye scans). Not encryption. Not secrecy. It's designing an entire system that doesn't break down easily (ductile) and still involves a great deal of human judgement. Technology is not the cure. People are.
Between listening to and reading Larry Lessig talk about copyright laws, the DMCA, the RIAA and other evils and then reading this article, you can get really depressed.
I'm going to bed soon. This is all way too heavy to ponder at 2:00 am.
2:02:38 AM
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Dramatic arc. Mark Bernstein: 10 Tips for Writing the Living Web. (65 words) [dive into mark]
I took a few minutes just now to read this article. I'm torn over whether I should feel guilty for not being consistent (consistent in posting that is) or encouraged by it because it rings so true.
One thing that hit me particularly strongly was this:
"Write honestly. Don't hide, and don't stop short. When writing about things that matter, you may be tempted to flee to safe, familiar havens: the familiar, the sentimental, the fashionable. Try to find the strength to be honest, to avoid starting the journey with passion and ending it with someone else's tired formula. The work may be hard, it may be embarrassing, but it will be true - and it will be you, not a tired formula or an empty design. And if you can be satisfied with that tired formula, you aren’t writing for a reason."
It pains me to admit that my courage to write honestly fails me. I 'flee to the safe' instead of staying true to my voice. Ouch.
1:19:08 AM
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Java Development with Ant. Java Development with Ant systematically explores what Ant can do, and how to apply it to your project. The book emphasizes basic concepts you need to know to effectively use Ant and leads you step-by-step through everything you need to know to compile, test, package and deploy an application. Chapter 4 covers Testing with JUnit. From Manning Publications Co. 08.14.02 [JavaBoutique]
I met one of the authors at O'Reilly's OSCON2002 and he showed me the PDF version that Manning was selling on their website before it was available in stores. Way cool. I bought it that night back in my hotel room over the wireless lan that was surrounding the ether.
As Dave would say... 'Bing'.
12:47:03 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Paul Leclerc.
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