I miss Brandioch!

Post #322,856 by Ashton 3/14/10 1:45:46 AM Reply	I miss Brandioch! His meta-Boolean skillz, when er, brandished amidst any semantically-convoluted propositions ... like this thread ... could slit you from your guzzle to your zatch.. Bonus points for Author / no lazy dbase searching. Still think that 'Our" Finest Hour(s) occurred pre-IWE, at the 'accretion-point': amidst the slings n'arrows of various excoriations on the InfoWorld NT-is-The-Futchah!/Sandy Reed tourneys; believe the first God Depositions occurred there too, in the waning days of that (by then embattled) site. The net was cast wide, as wide as the whole IW readership; most knew quite well what InfoWorld had originally been, something of an oasis from the Ad-speak distortions.. til Billy bought the IW Suits, lock, stock and Ballmer; then the OS/2 Vote-fixes and Sandy Reed-as-Cheney. Such lovely windmills to tilt-at. Wasn't it Brandioch who came up with ~~ The [ambiguously-gay] Duo? -- forget exact phrase, re. that columnist-pair of M$ shills and their specious reasoning on the IT koans of the day. (Exchanged several e-mails with him after he abandoned IWE, but haven't talked to him in years; recent quotes suggest that his brain hadn't caught afflenza during the turgid Eight Years of Nothingness.)
Post #322,867 by Another Scott 3/14/10 10:40:49 AM Reply	Archive.org doesn't have much of InfoWorld, unfortunatley. My recollection is that it was the two fellows writing about "security". I want to say that he (as khasim?) called them the "security twins", but I thought it was more cutting than that. E.g. http://web.archive.o...rity/security.htm Google and Altavista seem to have purged old stuff like that, if they ever had it. :-/ Perhaps the 'net does forget over time after all.... Yeah, he still seems as sharp as ever. Brandioch is still active out in the ether (on Schneier and he apparently has a Facebook page, among other stuff). Cheers, Scott.
Post #322,936 by Ashton 3/15/10 2:58:02 PM Reply	Yep, that's the 'Duo' and the image tends to evoke the suggestive tag, perhaps along with some of their replies in the Forum -- merely a bagatelle for repartee, and not your average bigoted entrée. I looked, years back, at the once-called Wayback-machine; it was pretty empty even then, so Yesss -- mere mythos about the elephantine memory of the webvertainment industry. Ashton's Law: The probability of your finding an item is inverse to the degree of your interest and the inverse-square of the cruciality of the missing datum. (There may also be a C-constant [Consternation] related to time-consumption of ultimately profitless searches: those which are seen to be affected by the search-order of the verbless phrases, but along with AEinstein -- I fear that including this Consternation Factor might lead an impressionable one closer to Super-String Theory, breaking thus many meta-connections among otherwise functional neurons.) But I digress.

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