uh-huh. from the facinating essay :: phpPatterns() – Templates and Template Engines “So… [IA? EH.]

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could be interesting, but it goes nowhere.

Think Secret: Virginia Tech cluster awaits G5 Xserves. And we're behind them in line. [Hack the Planet]

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this is not really news, but falling off the list might be somewhat important.

i've always liked this wesite, i don't know why. it pops up on my radar about once or twice a year and always makes me smile.

Infocus: TCP/IP Skills Required for Security Analysts. This article guides users new to the security field through some of the key skills required to work as a security analyst. The focus is on core TCP/IP competency and related technologies such as intrusion detection systems, firewalls and routers. [SecurityFocus News]

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i'm not an expert and even i agree that this is a required skill. i have a little book of tcp/ip that breaks it all down for me that i occasionally review. others should also be up on this info.

White House Throws Its Support Behind a Bill to Overhaul Supercomputing
Programs. The Bush administration has endorsed a bill to revamp the federal government's supercomputing programs. (The Chronicle of Higher Education) [Chronicle.com - The Wired Campus]

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i'm not sure this is worth it, but it is interesting to watch the direction that computer policy is taking and university reaction to it.

Karl Auerbach: ICANN Out of Control. 17 May 2004: “October's distributed, denial-of-service attack against the domain name system–the most serious yet, in which seven of the thirteen DNS roots were cut off from the Internet–put a spotlight on ICANN, the nongovernmental corporation responsible for Internet addressing and DNS. The security of DNS is on ICANN's watch. Why is it so susceptible to attack, when the Internet as a whole is touted as being able to withstand nuclear Armageddon?” Story [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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i wish someone would perpetrate another myth other than the nuclear war myth of the internet. it is just a bit old.

Word out.

Marc Canter: At the end of the day – it's not just the code that makes up the standard, but the people who use it.

This is consistent with Things really go boom when Demand gets the power to Supply. That's my current corollary to Cluetrain.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Blogging and Cost.

I've been thinking about money and blogging today, in part because so many people are writing about MovableType's pricing.

thanks, ailaina

I can't seem to figure out how much I receive from this weblog. But I can figure out roughly how much I spend — mostly in time. The expense number is large. And I'm quite sure markBernstein.org is profitable.

What has your weblog done for you? This weblog, over the years, has done me lots of favors. It's taken me to San Francisco and to Europe, twice. It's introduced me to lots of interesting people. It's got me to write every day — I know lots of people who pay their workshops and mentors plenty of money to do just that. It's helped me get in touch with some fascinating writers. It's helped people to get started with Tinderbox and with Storyspace, and it's helped them get more out of these tools. It's sold plenty of TEKKA subscriptions.

Thanks, Red!

The evident sourness of the Movable Type community in the face of a small, predictable price increase is dismaying. I say this, even though I work for a competitor.

[Mark Bernstein]

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on one level i can see Mark's point…. on another, i can't. i can't see that moveable type can cost-compete with other more open solutions, and because of that i don't think people should pay. this is not like tinderbox which has no real competition that i can see, and thus can more easily justify its cost as an interesting tool that does much more.

religion, on occasion, breeds a very real ignorance of some very important things in life. for instance, this story on a couple's seeming infertility.