Steven Ericsson-Zenith

Twitter Benefits: DNS Advantage Response

This post is about my complaints on Twitter last week concerning recent changes to Neustar's DNS Advantage and a query I have as a result from Vincent Lee, a product manager at Neustar. It comes as a surprise to me ... Read more

Winds of Ash and Cranky CalTrain Authoritarians

I have allergies. Living in Silicon Valley does not help matters. It's not the industrial pollution or the spraying of insecticide. It's the dust and the trees. Damn I love those trees, but the fact is that when they begin ... Read more

No way in hell, Obama.

Let me begin by saying that I am encouraged that Barack Obama won the democratic nomination. But then I would have been encouraged in exactly the same way if Hillary had won. That a woman and a black man got ... Read more

Future Web: XMLDB

I see the desktop disappearing completely in the not too distant future in favor of full client integration of the net via technologies like Google Gears http://gears.google.com However, my gripe with Google Gears - apart from the fact it does ... Read more

After Rauschenberg

The press didn't let me down when they allowed soulless but know-it-all professors of art history to write Rauschenberg's obituary. It was predictable. In an ideal world they would have waited for Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham or some artist of ... Read more

Robert Rauschenberg Passed Away

The news that Robert Rauschenberg died today, while not entirely unexpected, is deeply saddening. Robert Rauschenberg was 82 and the world is a little less bright today. Robert Rauschenberg was IMHO the most important artist of the twentieth century, and ... Read more

A New Bicycle

People that know me well know that in the past two years I have been making a real pain of myself by insisting that I fully integrate a bicycle into my life. I've been turning up at business meetings on ... Read more

Proudly Owning Michael Kay's XSLT 2.0 4th Ed.

I am now the proud owner of Michael Kay's XSLT 2.0 4th Edition, just released and flown to me down the friendly Amazon. Excellent! :-) I've been using XSLT for a couple of years now and I have become committed ... Read more