Archive for February, 2009

On How to Avoid Online Gasbagging

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Congratulations! You’ve had a brilliant idea. Now you’d like to share it!

But how? The answer is probably: words. The marketplace of ideas has shown strong year-over-year growth in the “musical” and “visual arts” mediums, but let’s face it, friend: Written and spoken language remains the number 1 preferred method to transfer [...]

Uphill Battle

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

What happens when you don’t start a software project looking at it from the user’s perspective?

This happens:

I tried once or twice to press this point when I was serving my brief stint in the security world. Unfortunately I didn’t have much clout with the big names of SELinux, because I’ve never been a “real” [...]