Innovation advisory and IRM/InfoSec/I-Audit services. Positive contrarian, inspirator, loosen-upper.
Go use it! Go beyond the gripe versus self-praise of reviews and donate to charity along the way.
I mean, how can you not like this sharing (of opinions) model.
Oh, and of course a picture for your viewing delight:
[Heh, which one of the Hoofddorp Calatravans is this ..?]
[Symbol of …, still in T or moving into E ..?]
So, here’s the May edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews:
| WIRED | TIRED | EXPIRED |
| Small wine appellations (see below) | Microbrews | Quasi- but very failed hip beers from global brand breweries |
| For the discovery of them. See below | Most are technically drinkable but no more than gimmicks in taste. | Awww, they’re as hip as LOLcats! |
| French, Italian, Spanish (very) small appellations | Eastern European wines | New world wines |
| Côtes de Toul, for one. Various Savoie sub-appellations. Knowing your way around Italy’s appellation-per-village / -anthill landscape. The many (sub)regions in Spain. The better quality Luxembourg reds (and whites). Try them, and be begeistert! (Oh, German – still ever so tending to over-sweetness… jammie US/Aussie taste failure) | The very few good ones, they keep for themselves. The easy currency inflow, they dump on us. | [Sigh] Apart from a very few, still very boring, boorishly simple. |
| Teen Twitter Terror Threat | Bugs like Heartbleed | Snowden et al. |
| Because the panic. By one tweet. Out of …? What if (among) the others (there) are encoded similar ones..? | Dude, that’s sooo 1980-2013 (give or take some years); self-referential. | From the Eastern front, no news. (Unless one would count the many same messages and very, very long spun out aftermath. Tire to kill ..? |
| Back to the absolute multi of multimedia | Game of Thrones | Mad Men |
| Back to the explosion of formats to communicate through; i.e., not only social media but all forms blended, off-line, online, text, video, paper, F2F, just anything, mixed ad hoc. Frantically searching for the right format – per sound bite. | Yeah, yeah, just kill eachother already. Might have stayed fun when it would have some actual history. | The mehhh of series. |
| Home cooking | Street food | French. Or pure Thai. |
| Because, if (!) one can, this is best, in quality of ingredients and control to not have the bad ones of those (e.g., salt… light if any, not tons to extract flavour from bland wholesale stuff). | Pure Markets, hipster cooking vans, et al. Watch out, the hoi polloi of wannabe classy but middle-aged mediocre-minded drones are picking up and overflowing the area with passive-agressive bitchiness..! | There’s so much more specialised kitchens – that actually are purely themselves, not still simpled-over-to-fake(!)-narrowminded-average tastes. |
| Home garden vegetables | Bio (-dynamic / organic) veggies | Plain supermarket veggies |
| The purity – of pleasure in seeing them grow, in nurturing. | Passive-aggressive B12-insufficients, couldn’t feed the tiniest part of the world population if they’d try to roll their methods out beyond their little kindergarten acre. | Semi-purified water, supplemented with E-numbers to add flavour. |
| OK, one more for this month, on the tech side: | ||
| Software Defined everything | Managed security services | SIEM / IAM |
| Because abstraction is good for business; mixing less under-standing, less overview and more complexity and (hence) much error-proneness (if that is a word). | If they weren’t managed already, move over to Little League / Internal or external, what’s the difference ..! (fundamentally) | Process nay procedures infrastructure driven by erstwhile point solutions. Yeah, baby, fire up the klesydra! |
| And a final one, to throw it in here by lack of a better place | ||
| Google Now | Siri | Dragon |
| Going strong, and working | Joked about often enough. May have started to work i.e., not too little anymore, but too late. | Same, big time; desktop oriented hence mehhh. |
OK, any suggestions for next month’s edition ..?
First, a picture for your viewing delight:
[Seems chaotic, yet navigable]
Who controls the Watsons in your pocket, once they arrive ..?
Anoher one triggered by Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think: When not if Watson has morphed into a Software Defined Anything something small enough to fit on your mobile, just about everyone will use it in cyborg / centaur ways to augment oneself. This will require adaptation of the way one goes around in the world, and …
may create a dependence on the Machine, possibly a big one for those that had gained the most by this new ways.
But
That’s only two questions that popped up already. There will be many more. And the answers …
Who will provide those, who will pick the best ones, who will decide what’s best ..!?
To Be Continued.
By Colonel John Paul Stapp:
The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.
More on this management guidelines site.
And a picture in your browser for reading one line so patiently:
[For those in the know of this building’s design flaws…]
Would any of you be interested to help me start a competition to find, and have voted, the Edsel App of 2014 ..? Or have an award ceremony every quarter, or so ..?
This would be about the app, or application, or system, or any invention in general, where all that see it at its publication go like what were they even thinking!?
To be clear, this will be called the Edsel App for a reason, being it is the high water mark of an idea smash-bombed into oblivion by its utter ugliness.
Which brings us to all sorts of criteria and competition requirements.
Re eligibility; there are gazillions of apps that never gain any traction. There are even more, that are ugly and/or operationally/practically disfunctional as @#$%&*. But I aim for the ones that were designed by serious, large teams of developers, designers, etc., in reputable large companies with reasonable track records.
Where do we find them; who brings them to us?
How do we ‘ test’ them?
Etc., to be continued. I’ll leave it here for now, with a picture for your viewing delight (??):
[The Hague parliament, dreadful design outside, same in its operations…]
First, a picture of course:
[“Mehh, why not just put a concrete slab over the canal..?”; Calatrava at Hoofddorp]
After finishing reading (partially as in ‘studying’) Smarter Than You Think (again), I saw this little piece on transcendence … taking it from another angle. Unsure how to marry the two perspectives…
[Life is hard, moose style (i.e., no Tim Horton in sight)]
Hey has anyone ever investigated the various legal ramifications re honeypots? Because, there’s two elements at play:
Or …? Your advice, please.
In Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think. near the end there’s a reminder:
In 1996, writer and electronic activist John Perry Barlow proclaimed “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.” Addressing old-school governments – “you weary giants of flesh and steel” – he proclaimed “You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.” As it turns out, nothing of the sort was true.
Now, this raised a question:
How is – or isn’t – Edward Snowdon, or Julian Assange for that matter, not Paul Revere ..?
How is “The regulars are coming!” not just bringing out info that in itself was true and factual, and quite innocent, if it weren’t for its implications for the ruled, by oppressors that were exactly that by overarching secrecy of their operations ..? If you’re doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide works for sousveillance as well.
Paul Revere certainly did it. Calling them Regulars instead of plainly Redcoats as to subvert their attempts to execute him outright as a rebel just for using such indicative langauge, means he understood to neutralise his langauge to that of the oppressor, to expose the latter for all in the know.
So, when Assange and later Snowdon just outed the very documents, not accusations based on them but as extreme summaries, these were minor offences if, not when, the conclusions from those plain flat documents would have been normal legitimate business. The ‘crime’ was created only by the overreactions. The regulars are coming. So what ..?
But for the careless reader, it may not have been clear enough: I really do seek arguments back and forth re this question: How does ES equal PR, or not ..? Your thoughts please [And TLAs listening/reading in: I’m serious about weighing arguments pro and contra…]
And here’s a picture because you waited so patiently for the end…:
[Exposed modernity, sedate oldness; ON]
