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I browse Wikipedia as part of Anonymous, and have even fixed a few typos there anonymously. But most of the time I’m online as Mark Craig. I don’t even have enough imagination to have a superhero or slick handle. I work, however, in a domain that has an Orwellian odor. We usually let you look as anonymous, but want to authenticate and authorize as soon as you want to do anything.

The focus on identity management goes back to the development of directories, such as X.500, where a namespace serves to hold named objects that represent real-life “identified” entities, such as countries, organizations, applications, subscribers or devices.

Why do we want to be able to manage identity, really? The economic pressure comes from the need of businesses, which I can see both as engines of material social improvement and unaccountable private tyrannies, to know who is doing what when. Given those three dimensions, a business can debug everything from how to do one-to-one marketing to how to reduce the number of laid off employees still getting their mobile phone subscriptions paid by the company.

Other than the economic pressure, why manage identity? What the heck is identity anyway? Identity can be hard to nail down if you think about it critically.

reorgtool(1) User Commands reorgtool(1)

NAME
reorgtool – general-purpose reorganizer

SYNOPSIS
reorgtool [ -r ] [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -r ] [ -R ] [ -t ] [ -l ] [ -e ]

DESCRIPTION

reorgtool is an interactive, windows-based high performance user
application for use by company Presidents and Vice-Presidents. It allows
most of the overhead involved in a reorganization to be taken out of the
hands of the invoking manager (and out of everyone else’s hands as well).

At the present time reorgtool only runs under Motif since suitable
libraries were not available due to the last reorganization. As a result
the program can only be invoked from the command line.

OPTIONS

-n Normal mode. In Normal Mode reorgtool does not provide any
information to staff being reorganized. This is the default mode.

-v Verbose mode. Approximately twice as much information is supplied
to reorganized staff as in normal mode.

-f Feedback mode. In this mode reorgtool will not respond to feedback
from reorganized staff. This can adversely affect the operation of
mailtool.

-r Resume mode. While reorgtool is running, or after its successful
completion, resumes are automatically generated for reorganized staff.
Should reorgtool fail in operation a resume is automatically
generated for the user who invoked reorgtool.

-R Randomize. This mode requires no input on the part of the user who
invokes reorgtool. Produces a random reorganization chart,
presentation slides and confusing mail messages as output.

-t Timer. If not invoked manually, this option allows reorgtool to
run periodically in automatic mode. The default period between
reorganizations is pseudo-random but has a value between 3 months
and 1 year.

-l Looping option. (This should be called the recursive option but there
are no more possibilities for “r” options). This option allows
reorgtool to recursively invoke itself leading to a reorganization
which in turn will require another reorganization to reorganize
itself. This will in turn generate a futher reorganization. The
default setting is for the number of recursions is 2, which is
calculated to be (n+1) where n is the number of reorganizations which
can be understood simultaneously by a VP.

-e Everthing mode. Reorganize everything (no undo). This mode is
intended to increase the ease-of-use by reduced thinking time.

FILES
/dev/null

SEE ALSO
reorg(1), resume(1), resign(1), leak(1)

DIAGNOSTICS
reorgtool provides no feedback in the case of an error.

BUGS
Occasionally reorgtool does provide feedback to reorganized staff. This
happens infrequently in normal usage and is usually the result of a
memory leak in the reorgtool user.

We have been getting the rain and cool weather that others have not. Today is a day to stay inside and fiddle the time away.

MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch (!), was something I started using after my musical friend Dave suggested I check out his band’s tunes there.

Anyway, I had to sign up to download their tunes, so that got me to create an account. With that first account, I could not upload tunes however. So this evening I created another for our Long Live The Timpani idea, and chucked some of the tunes from http://mcraig.org/lltt up there.

More brainless noodling. This guy’s guitars sound nice even with a bad guitarist playing them.

This is therefore called Solidbody Blues.

One more Magic Garage Band number to prove how ridiculous I am. This one is called Roadhouse Blues after the roadhouse font pictured above. Absolutely nothing to do with The Doors.

My preamp went back to the manufacturer after getting noisy. The manufacturer sent me a new one.

Thanks to Mom and Dana, I have a good microphone. They smuggled an SM57 from the US.

Too bad I do not have a good voice. Anyway, I rerecorded At Rest, which is an old LLTT song that I originally recorded in Strasbourg.