I believe that using double quotes around a word or phrase negates the word or phrase that is quoted. Let me demonstrate:
- “All beef” patties - Isn’t even all “meat”
- “Cheese” product - I shudder to think what this really is
- “Seafood and crab” cakes - sold by Trader Joe’s
From this list you may think that double quoting as negation only works for foodstuffs, but that is incorrect. People use air quotes to accomplish the same thing as well as a method for reinforcing a negation. For example:
- I’m not a “strong swimmer.”
- I had to brief the “executive team.”
- An “expert” said this will make us safe.
With this in mind, I present to you the following picture…
This is a great summation of the points against our current, expensive, ineffective “security” at airports, written by a commercial airline pilot.
A hearty congrats to my friends and old co-workers at Tivoli on a job well done. ITIM 5.0 has been officially released!
Having been part of the beta program, I can say that this is an amazing release. A great deal of thought and research has gone into ITIM 5.0 and in the bits I have seen, customers are really going to enjoy using it. Yes, I said enjoy. The new user interfaces are enjoyable to use. Amazing and true.
Good work everyone.
My grandmother died last week. I was quite close to her. I was her first grandchild and thus a testbed for grandparenting. I have to say, she was an incredible person. A mathematician who worked on one of the first few computers ever built, she worked for the military during World War II. She raised three kids and was the matriarch for a large extended family.
But that is not exactly how I remember her. I remember her as the person that really introduced me to art and music. Taking me to both the MFA and Boston Symphony, she spoiled me with an informal education in the arts. (It is all the time I spent as a kid in Boston Symphony Hall that has made me so picky about the acoustics of the halls in which I hear classical music. Sorry, Kennedy Center, but you just can’t compete to the warmth and richness of the sound in Symphony Hall.) Later in life, she studied art history at Wellesley College and was a docent at its Davis Museum.
Always proper in an unstuffy way, my grandmother taught me about decorum through action. She had a palpable strength transmitted through her dignity and unwavering confidence. And in her last years, it was that strength that suffer so. Her dignity and confidence ebbed as her health receded.
Watching her final years made me resolute to find a way to control the way in which I die. I have a vision in which, knowing I have lived beyond my sell-by date, that go out for a great meal, say good by to loved ones, and, under doctor supervision, pass on without pain.
Dignity in living and dignity in dying.
Nishant, in a light hearted manner, took my post on Sun acquiring Vaau as a bit of a dare. This is how I responded to his comment:
Since I don’t believe that ERM is an end in and of itself, I am more curious where the market and technology will go now that two “suite” vendors have made acquisitions. If, by orchestrating some sort of challenge between Oracle and Sun to integrate and innovate, I can help move things along, then yes, by all means, consider it a challenge. Maybe the gang at Burton Group can referee this?
How vendors like Sun and Oracle integrate their ERM acquisitions will have a very tangible impact on the future direction of identity management. Both are in a position to unlock the true value of enterprise role management.
The step of integrating ERM in user provisioning is a no brainer, though it will be interesting to see how fast each vendor can do it. What is more interesting is the step beyond that. I started to ruminate on that before… guess we’ll have to wait and see what comes.
In the meantime, it would be great if someone like Kevin Kampman would weigh in on this.
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