Archive for September, 2007

Identity and hypocrisy

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I relaized today that I’m a hypocrite.
On the one hand, I’m a big proponent of OpenID. I think that tying identity to individuals, rather than services, makes sense and is the only sensible way to handle id management on the internet.
That doesn’t mesh well, though, with my general security policy and open derision […]

On platform lock-in

Friday, September 14th, 2007

I’ve been mulling over David’s recent (ok, not that recent but RL’s been interfering) post on vendor lock-in and encouraging more PC use in his Mac-centric office. The premise is that having multiple OS will make your company more flexible and better able to respond to potential disasters. The example he gives is viruses. I […]

On Student Nature

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

I just had a conversation with an instructor about making his Blackboard course available to students. By default, we make courses unavailable to students because 1) not everyone uses an LMS for every course and 2) even the ones who do don’t need emails from nosy students wondering when materials will be posted. This particular […]