My optometrist was chatting while examining my eyes and of course I worked in some blogging conversation. She confessed to not using the internet much or liking it, except her parents had recently called from a computer while on a trip. I told her that was VOIP. I realized all of our recent technology names sound really stupid. WIKI, BLOG, VOIP. Of course the words sound silly enough when you are saying them to a corporate audience, but making them verbs, or compound words makes it worse. I don't have to say I'm part of the VOIP-O-SPHERE do I?

Sometimes I wonder about "security experts." Here's one who thinks Google Earth is a terrorism risk because it allows people to learn the GPS coordinates of soccer stadiums. (English blog entry on the topic here.)

Executive Forum: Secure in the Knowledge

Forrester's Paul Stamp, Kelly Schupp of IBM Tivoli Netcool Market Solutions, OpenService's Ted Joseph, and Dale Cline of NetForensics talk security information management.

Where JBossians blog

Where JBossians blog

Where JBossians blog

Where JBossians blog

I've been a blogger for a whopping 100 days, and it's been a delightful and educational experience. Some readers (Omer Trajman, in particular) asked me share my observations about my blogging experience, so here goes: 1. The more popular...

A young man comes to town. He is reasonably good looking, has a little money in his pocket. He finds it easy to talk to women.

He doesn't speak much about his past, but it is clear that he spent a lot of time in a soulless big company.

I am pleased to unveil (officially) the fact that Virtuoso is now available in Open Source form.

A weblog covering security and security technology.

A fascinating yearly reading, and one of the best PR tools created recently, is Google Zeitgeist. Google aggregates billions of search queries to determine the top 10 queries providing a window into the hottest trends, concerns and cultural phenomena of our time.

The .EU Landrush is riddled with problems.
In my prior blog article I described the fiasco and gaming that has taken place with the .EU Landrush. All of it stems from the lax way the EURid registry administered the registrar accreditation process.

Steve Jones, who I’ve had a steak pie with, is a terrific fellow. (Thought that was a nice opening sentence). Don’t worry, there’s no “however”. He’s cool. Anyhow he’s posted on his blog about how Metadata isn’t Magic. I like this post a lot, very true. I like the exploration of the boundaries of what makes metadata [...]

Last week the San Francisco Chronicle broke the story that Air Force One's defenses were exposed on a public Internet site:

Sho Kuwamoto has posted a Flex component he calls Sliding Drawer, a panel that slides into view with mouseover (think auto-hide in Windows taskbar).