Google Groups is horrible. They totally ruined DejaNews. They couldn't and can't monetize it so they just fuck with it -- but they will still copyright it to within an inch of it's life. They had no respect for the value of usenet. It was the #1 source for programming information during the 90's and I still miss it. We are living in Orwellian times, and "He who controls the present, controls the past". I would vote you up a million times.

Agile's appeal to the corporate world is understandable. Turn an anarchic, creative, random process into a measurable machine operation. Developers now become robots in the clone army. And there is buy in at many levels. Now imagine your group's most obnoxious administrative assistant becoming your scrum supervisor. It's a way for the non technical to make themselves relevant.

I'm sure someone has thought of this: use the same email client framework at sender and receiver. The first time an email is sent to someone using this system, there is a handshake between the 2 clients before the real payload is encrypted and sent. The handshake, using ordinary email, establishes the identity and provides the public keys. No 3rd party services are required other than typical email transport through the tubes. There would be a delay for the first email to go through, but none after that. The main thing I want to thwart is the data mining of all my emails that can be intercepted en route or stored on servers.

There is a killer app out there waiting to be written for this. I want automatic encryption built in to email, without the end user having to mess around with keys, key registrys, pgp, or any other encryption framework. I think there is way to do it.

I only use the model M keyboards. They were the most reasonable approximation to the selectric typewriter that I own. IBM knew how to make a good keyboard.

Another thing I liked about the model M was that it had very low radiated EMI -- they thought about what they were doing. Test a cheapo plastic keyboard vs. a real IBM model M. If you are using a radio or sensitive equipment it's a big deal..

I found by accident years ago that my WPM goes UP if I use earplugs or headphones. For some reason, if there is no sound, I can fly. I would like some feedback on this. I had a product design psychologist comment on this and he thought there was something to it.

I've mentioned the apparent loss of older microsoft documentation before and was smacked down... but I think it's true. Combine that with what I think is a degradation or loss of deja news archive software postings from the 90's and it gets to be a real problem.

This is exactly the kind of crap the US needs to stop wasting money on.