Category: Personal

July in Northern California is always hot, but this year it must be worse. Last nightToday, our pool has 85 86 degrees F (that’s almost 30C). What good is a pool if it doesn’t cool you down? Our outside thermometer shows a recorded maximum of 120.7F 120.9F. I guess that the Sun must have been…

If you care about: security in technology global security international relations and foreign policy very unlikely-sounding, but true stories including untraceable poison pellets inside modified umbrellas for assassinations (that actually occurred) and things of that nature or you have an opinion on international affairs today, regardless of your particular political views. I insist ;-) that…

I proposed the following topic: Let’s role play as aspiring cyber criminals, 10 years from now, when there’s a ubiquitous digital identity layer that is part of all digital interactions over the internet. How do we make a buck or a billion? for dinner conversation at the upcoming Harvard/Berkman conference on digital identity. Apparently they…

I won’t go this year, but invited I was. Today I’m reading that for the World Economic Forum meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh, which will open on Saturday, …the Egyptians have deployed naval aircraft and ships from the Suez Canal to guard the Red Sea resort… Egyptian security has closed jetties and moved divers’ boats out…

Do I need to say more? This is Dave Winer, who just took a bunch of digital pictures, trying to upload them from his laptop in broad daylight … Why does this remind me of the beginnings of photography?