Israel: The Alternative.   Here's a remarkable sentence that cuts through many layers of denial: "In today's 'clash of cultures' between open, pluralist democracies and belligerently intolerant, faith-driven ethno-states, Israel actually risks falling into the wrong camp." This idea is at the core of an essay by Tony Judt writing in the New York Review of Books. Judt also writes: "The problem with Israel, in short, is not—as is sometimes suggested—that it is a European 'enclave' in the Arab world; but rather that it arrived too late. It has imported a characteristically late-nineteenth-century separatist project into a world that has moved on, a world of individual rights, open frontiers, and international law. The very idea of a 'Jewish state'—a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded— is rooted in another time and place. Israel, in short, is an anachronism." Let the squirming begin.
posted by Will Ross at 07:03

Robert X. Cringely has a sharp column this week undressing Steve Ballmer's recent remarks. How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All
posted by Will Ross at 17:19

Transfer of PHI by AHIMA. Also, Shadow Charts (aka escaped, unsecured PHI).
posted by Will Ross at 05:13

Organizational Policies and Open Source by James Negrette, Robert Munro, and Andrew Aitken [ Linux Devices ]

Intro to Wireless by IBM.



posted by Will Ross at 17:21

it's grey and drizzly but beautiful in vancouver today...
posted by Will Ross at 14:20