Entries from November 2007 ↓

I don’t know how I missed this when it was put up, but there’s a podcast with a recap of the XACML Interop in July on the OASIS site.

OASIS XACML InterOp Recap

The podcast contains interviews with all the participants, including Rich Levinson of Oracle, Anil Saldhana of JBoss, and myself.

Thanks to Anil for the link.

These are my links for December 1st through November 14th:

• The Complete Playboy - Massive collection of Playboy images from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
• Wooster Collective: Another Crate Piece from Melbourne -
• Wooster Collective: Crate Art in Melbourne -
• Greetings from Idiot America - Esquire - “There’s never been a better time to espouse, profit from, and believe in utter, unadulterated crap.”
• Big Blue eyes on Asia potential | Australian IT - Interview with the head of IBM Australia Glen Boreham
• The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times - Interesting article about microblogging, primarily Twitter
• Johnny Cash on Sesame Street - “According to legend, Cash attacked Big Bird with a broken whiskey bottle backstage.”
• It’s A Fat World After All | Autopia from Wired.com - “If there’s a sadder commentary on the state of American society, we can’t think of it — we’ve grown so fat we sink the boats of It’s A Small World.”

The Brisbane Times today has an article on South-East Queensland’s car theft hot spots.

The worst locations for car theft are on the Gold Coast, south of Brisbane and in Ipswich.

“Most stolen cars are used for joyrides, to commit crimes or just for transport,” he said. “Usually they’re dumped reasonably close by but often they’re severely damaged.”

Motor vehicle theft in Queensland has risen 7 per cent from the previous year, with Southport, Surfers Paradise, Biggera Waters and Ipswich the hardest-hit local government areas.

Older cars without mobilisers are frequently stolen, with early 1990s model Commodores hot property.

You know that feeling you get when it seems like something was written about you, specifically? My car was stolen earlier this year, joy-ridden and dumped relatively close with enough damage for insurance to write it off. I live in Southport, and my car was a 1989 VN Commodore Wagon.

Damn…