This Is Not A Blog

(Censored version)

I decided to clean up, HTMLify, and put online various notes, essays, and rants that I've written at various times. Why? I honestly don't know. I can't imagine anyone else wanting to spend time reading my opinion on two party politics, or anything else for that matter. But if everyone else is going to spew their mindless verbal diarrhea online, then why not me? I mean, the stuff's just sitting there...

And then I decided, suddenly, not to any more. The reason for this is that I'd written a bunch of deliberately uncontrolled rants about technologies that were pissing me off at the time. Like Bluetooth. As it happens, I really like Bluetooth, there's just a few things that irritate me about it. So I wrote about those. But since the resulting text completely misrepresents my opinion, I decided that it was pretty silly to put it up on my opinion page.

So I've now gutted this page, leaving only the essays that never criticise anything. You may proceed to call me a pussy now.

• Why Orkut is Evil. Don your tinfoil hats for a tour of social software.
• The Two Party System for Dummies. Why you should vote, even though it doesn't matter a toss who for.
• Federated Identity Management. My thoughts on how to clean up the mess of identity theft and privacy violations online, using the technologies around the corner.
• "If you don't like it, you can fix it yourself." A response to the fundamental article of faith of the open source movement.
• MusicBrainz and the Semantic Web. A breathless ode to half-baked technology I'm afraid. I am a geek after all; sometimes even I can't help getting infected.
• The coming apocalypse. An analysis of trends in the IT industry as a whole.