Home Brandenburg DCrocker Writings Dave Crocker's Personal Web Page map ~ photo ~ lodging dcrocker@bbiw.net www.dcrocker.net +1.408.246.8253   David H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking. He has contributed to the development of internetworking capabilities for twenty-five years, first as part of the Arpanet research community and then in the commercial sector. His current efforts focus on the creation of Internet-based businesses built on a solid foundation of customer benefit and revenue potential. Mr. Crocker's curriculum vitae is also available.     Writings, musings, & foils Top Professional Efforts Brandenburg Musings, writings, etc.; organized and annotated.   Personal Efforts A Malaysian Journal, On our living and working in Malaysia Winter Weekend in Geneva First Time in Seoul Two Weeks in South America, July 2001 England Family, Aug 2001 Some L.A. Family, Nov 2001 Steve's IEEE Award Ceremony at INET, Jun 2002 Japan, Jul 2002 Paul Celebrates 83, Sep 2002 LA Thanksgiving 2002 - Willens / Crocker Año Nuevo 2002 - 29 Dec 02 - 1 Jan 03 Howard Sobel - 1916-2003 Bumi Adopted - Oct 2003 December - 2003 Japan - Jan 2004 Bali - Jun-July 2004 Finally Ensconced Melissa Crocker's MD/MBA Graduation - May 2005 Florida - Jun 2006 Casavant Frères - Jul 2006         Places to Visit Top   Dr. Stephen D. Crocker Because Cain wasn't entirely correct?     Thoughts Top Gender Neutral Use "they" instead of he/she Third-person gender neutrality writing is not improved with he/she — The Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary folks see an easy, reasonable and established alternative. Consider: He/she is linguistically awkward and self-conscious. He/she places 'he' first, thereby continuing a gender bias; alternating the combination merely makes the construct that much more awkward. Alternating use of he and she again sustains a gender bias for each use and again sustains linguistic awkwardness.   Costs of Progress From "Inherit the Wind" Gentlemen, progress has never been a bargain. You've got to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man behind a counter who says 'All right, you can have a telephone; but you'll have to give up privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote; but at at price; you lose the right to retreat behind a powder puff or a petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air; but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline.' Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop, where we can look back and see the way from the which we came. But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.   Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the following eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences. The network is reliable Latency is zero Bandwidth is infinite The network is secure Topology doesn't change There is one administrator Transport cost is zero The network is homogeneous Peter Deutsch The Beginning of the Web As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush, July 1945