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• Malcolm Gladwell Blinks at RSA
• 22 days ago
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  Malcolm Gladwell Blinks at RSA: Malcolm Gladwell (who I must confess is probably my favorite author) was one of the paid keynote speakers and gave a really excellent 45 minute talk more or less on the subject of his most recent book Blink! Whether or not you've read the book I really recommend the movie (in this case the keynote replay available from the RSA website). The book and ...

• Ain't Science Wonderful
• 22 days ago
• You probably believed it was true anyway, but now using expensive modern brain imaging technology Stanford researchers have now gathered real evidence that sex does in fact help sell products (in this case motorcycles). To quote from their news release "The study showed that when heterosexual men are exposed to positive emotional stimuli—in this case, erotic photos of a man and woman—an area of th ...

• Infrastructure Successes and Failures:
• 22 days ago
• In the last month John and I took separate (but equal!) vacations in Paris. John completed the Paris Marathon while I took my high-school daughter to visit this wonderful city on her Spring break. On our way back we were routed through Heathrow and had the bad luck of experiencing British Air's now infamous Terminal 5 on its first day of attempted operation. The BA planes were full of wonderful an ...

• End-to-End Trust -- The next big thing or fiddling while Rome burns?
• 22 days ago
• At RSA Microsoft (with great fanfare) introduced the notion of "end-to-end trust" featuring a White Paper by Scott Charney, VP Trustworthy Computing, and featured in Craig Mundie's keynote, shown here in dialog with Chris Leach, Affiliated Computer Services' CISO. The paper and the topic are thoughtful and meaningful, but the tenor of the paper is very academic and not at all prescriptive. My MS ...

• Cisco and EMC Announce (something)
• 22 days ago
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  Cisco held a press/analyst day just before RSA that included a very interesting customer visit to (and dinner with) Esurance, the Web-based auto insurance company with the flashy cartoon ads. The event started with a "big" announcement of a partnership with RSA (specifically integrating information from EMC's Infoscape technology -- where the Tablus DLP content analysis stuff ended ...