Day: January 7, 2005

Over the last few days I have received a lot of interesting links and emails that I want to share with those of you involved in this conversation. There's a snow storm coming so maybe I can just hybernate over the weekend and do just that. Anyway, I had a good laugh at Myren's spirited comment (he's from the interesting www.alienintels.com) in response to those spurring me on to faster delivery:

pardon me, but f that on demand non-sense. tell people to back off their rss readers 2880 minutes or so. take all the time you want. law number one about writing immutable laws is that you have to get them right. its been a month plus some change, this pace has been amazing. keep up the good work. no need to rush.

Hey, cool yo Myren. I appreciate that. Though I'm not sure what my excuse will be once we've finished the laws…

Phil Becker of Digital ID World has put together his top-ten identity predictions for 2005.

And hey gang, the Laws made number six. I sure hope we can, as an industry, live up to the opportunity we all have in front of us.

6. Kim Cameron's “Laws of Identity” conversation will begin affecting products.
This conversation, started at the October Digital ID World conference, may be the most important thing going on in identity right now. It has re-engaged a number of serious identity thinkers, and clarified things for many observers. In a few short months, it has already shaken up thinking in several arenas. Kim is Chief Identity Architect at Microsoft, and Microsoft's identity strategy is gaining clarity again, but the products that this conversation affects in 2005 won't be just Microsoft's.

Lawrence just sent me an emphatic, “No practicing on the live site”. Ah! Shucks!

Had a wierd problem trying to move Radio Userland from one machine to another last night. Although I was trying to restore from the cloud, my newly installed copy clobbered the cloud backup. Which reminds me – how many times has a backup really worked anyway? Remember those old tape machines that could write flawlessly but could never read the tapes?

Seemed for an hour or two I had lost everything despite the backups.

Except that Userland's Lawrence Lee came riding to the rescue as he has always done before. Thanks Lawrence. You are a great support guy. Now somehow I need to understand how this restore thing works. Maybe we can practice this again on the weekend.