I've seen the future I can't afford it Tell me the truth, Sir Someone just bought it.

Der Zappelphilipp von heute ist der Manager von morgen.

"Mit solchen Fratzen kennt sich Wolfgang Bergmann aus. Der Erziehungswissenschaftler aus Hannover ist der Experte für Hyperaktive, genauer gesagt: Menschen, die unter dem Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom (ADS) leiden. Es sind Kinder, die sich weder konzentrieren, noch still sitzen und zuhören können. Sie quasseln, haben aber nichts zu sagen. Was soll aus diesen Kindern nur werden? 'Manager', sagt Bergmann." - Wolf Lotter: Das richtig Maß; brand eins Juli 2007, S. 46 ff.

grassroots network identity.

i am not really firm with neither security aspects nor identity standards. however, lately i imagine the following lightweight and decentralized setup for a grassroots network identity infrastructure:

1. an identity's key (ie. your login name) is a url
2. behind each url lies a world-readable document describing the identity
3. the document format needs to be specified (it could be xml)
4. each identity document contains an encrypted (hashed) password
5. when logging in with the key url the given password is hashed (and most likely salted), too, and compared with the hash from the document which is retrieved via the url
6. password transmission should either happen via ssl or not at all, ie. it should be hashed by the client (javascript)
7. the identity document might contain sensible information which should be encrypted in a decryptable way. this could be achieved via private/public key pairs that are assigned to individual web services which themselves are represented by urls again (but i did not make up my mind here, yet)
8. user's can take care of their identity themselves (ie. they got shell access to a web server) or let them be hosted at a ceritified identity provider

am i missing something? (i guess so, but please don't hesitate to let me know.)

omar sharif don't like it...

lock the taskbar!

achtung, denzeldrive verschärft ab september 2007 die preise.

die kostenlosen nachtstunden fallen weg, ab 1.9. sind die tarife bis 23:00 zu zahlen. danach kostet jede stunde 40 cent. der kilometertarif bis zum 100. km wird auf 48 cent/km angehoben (zumindest für privatkunden mit fahrzeugen der gruppe a).

zum vergleich: alte preisliste, neue preistabelle.

Melanie Haarhaus, Fine Jewellery.

Keep the tagging, lose the cloud.

Not just because of this strong and justified statement I assume Kris would like Jeff Atwood's Thirteen Blog Clichés; it also curses the calendar widget, excess (ajaxian) flair, blogging about blogging or the mindless top (n) lists.

Actually, one could think Kris himself might have written this excellent article. But then again, he just wouldn't have done it in the form of this very top 13 list...

remember?

zoom in!

foo, wibble, gloop.

wikipedia: metasyntactic variables.

51

"This appears to be the first uninteresting number, which of course makes it an especially interesting number, because it is the smalles number to have the property of being uninteresting. It is therefore also the first number to be simultaneously interesting and uninteresting." -- David Wells: The Penguin Dictionary Of Curious And Interesting Numbers, 2nd ed., p. 107.

Being revised in 1997 this seems to be outdated information: in Robert Munafo's Notable Properties of Specific Numbers 51 is categorized as a Motzkin number.