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A true ironist.Via Strange Doctrines, a Washington Post article about a man who really lives the concept of "contingency":
"What are the chances of you doing this again?" the judge asked.
Timmers -- dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, his long, white hair flowing down his back -- paused a moment before speaking up.
"There's always a chance of anything, Your Honor," he said.
The judge's jaw dropped. He pressed Timmers to be clear.
"The odds of that happening are 800 million billion to one," Timmers said, "but I can't ever rule anything out completely, Sir."
The irony is that his
honesty has already gotten him more jail time (i.e., the delay in
sentencing). What I also like about this piece is the chain of linked
commentary about it. I especially like the commentary at Thoughts Arguments and Rants:
Don't be a Sceptic
Luka Yovetich sent me a link to this article in the Washington Post
about the costs of scepticism. The defendent was asked whether he would
commit more crimes if he was released, and (to paraphrase) he said that
he didn't know because he didn't have an answer to global scepticism.
As they say on the interwebs, read the whole thing. You'll laugh,
you'll cry, you'll recognise behaviour that previously you'd only seen
in philosophical colleagues, etc.
11:51:23 AM
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Great WS-* Case Study.Tim Bray has done a great case study write up about WS-*. Here's the intro:
Last week at Java One, Ashesh Badani, a Sun SOA marketing person, wanted to
have lunch with me to talk about WS-*. He brought along T.N. Subramaniam,
Director of Technology for
RouteOne, a car-loan aggregator.
(Sun loves RouteOne, they're a reference customer not only for us but for
SeeBeyond, which we're in the process
of acquiring).
Anyhow, neither Ashesh nor Ashok Mollin, a Sun guy who's been engaged at
RouteOne, got a chance to say much, because
T.N. and I hit it off and had a good time talking about Web Services.
Which RouteOne are doing, big time and for big bucks and successfully.
They are exactly
the kind of people that those of us struggling in the WS-* morass ought to be
looking to for lessons.
This, I think, will be the first ever ongoing piece
structured as an interview; with T.N.'s help, I've tried to reconstruct our
conversation at lunch.
I think some conclusions are obvious, but I'll leave them for you to
draw.
I'd bottom line the advice from TN as "So far so good, but as you fill out WS-* KISS (instead of addressing marginal cases)."
11:29:20 AM
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