My favorite oversimplifier, Jakob Nielsen is At It Again. This time it’s computer security. As usual, there’s some meat in the soup. Computer security should be easier for normal people to set up. He uses the analogy of locking a car. That level of security for a computer should be trivially easy for a user […]
…when you have a child. Jeff Zeldman is finding that out. I remember well the first day I met my oldest child. I was prepared, I’d had more than 9 months to think about the idea, get used to it, plan for it — but it didn’t matter. The man who picked up those seven […]
OK, so you already know I’m not extremely happy with the state of the CMS arena currently, and I promised you an update. Andrew Eddie of the Mambo team and I have been exchanging some emails, each of us educating the other. I find that part of my previous rant was being addressed almost as […]
The next stop on my journey through Dame Agatha’s land was Hickory Dickory Death. Another of the “nursery rhyme” mysteries, this one is not one of her best. Oh, its a good puzzle (when does she not make one?) but in this book her palming of the critical clues is not quite up to her […]
This entry from Candace Robb’s series about the medieval one-eyed Captain, Owen Archer, is a bit of a departure from previous entries. When the series started, Owen began to serve the Archbishop of York, and he used his brain and his experience to solve murders. As the series went on, the deductive skills were emphasized […]
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