Ordo Ab Chao

I'm struggling under the weight of my new found fame courtesy of the reg. Yes the witty person (sarcastic git) who responded to the reg's poll to find America's CTO was me.

My email is reproduced below.

"As you don't provide Al Gore as a candidate to reinvent the internet, Siegfried and Roy are the only sensible option. Another alternative is a virtual CTO representing a hive mind of random editors. If only the IETF made RFCs available as anonymous wikis! They SHOULD do this.

Or a reality TV show where each of the candidates has to respond to various IT challenges like formatting a table correctly in Word or improving BGP. It's a serious position so the selection process should be rigorous"

As an email subscriber to numerous IETF mailing lists I think my suggestion may not improve the efficiency of the organisation but it might give implementors who DELIBERATELY misinterpret the specifications for commercial advantage an excuse. They could simply claim "MUST" used to be "MAYBE". Which leads me to mememoir.org which seeks to remove unattributable modifications which pollute the wikisphere. Neat idea. There's an uneasy tension between preserving anonymity to protect well meaning truth promoters from pressure groups (for legal reasons I can't think of any off hand) and protecting commercial puppets who use a public encyclopaedia as a platform for spreading rumours & FUD. (again for legal reasons, examples escape me)

Anyway, I'm off to sign autographs.

When Google launched their Chrome browser all those days ago I was wondering when plugins were going to start appearing. Jonathan will testify that I'm plugin obsessed with plugins for delicious, source code inspection, continuous build management and pretty much anything that might be useful. I really wanted Chrome to have delicious support like firefox but then I remembered it supports webkit.

You can go to the delicious bookmarklets page and add the delicious link to the chrome bookmarks bar. It's not as nice as the firefox search interface but, hey, it's a start.

I quite like chrome. It's minimalist and even with the process/tab overhead it performs quite well.