New Domain established.

For those of you who may be interested, I have set up a dynamic domain name: cliquespace.dyndns.org. May all your IP logs give you certainty.

Enjoy.

A letter titled: "What you may want to do about my enrolment."

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My local university has shown the same side to me as ever they have. I have given up on the fantasy that they might be able to help.

I am unsure whether you [the person I believe is the HPS - the 'to' recipient of this email] are still responsible for these matters (I don't know - nor should it require my effort to know - who actually is) but I tell you because I previously understood you to be the person responsible. Please forward this message to the person who is responsible should you no longer be such a person.

It has been almost two weeks since I last visited "my supervisor" [the 'CC' recipient of this email]. In that "meeting" my frustrations about his inability to keep a regular fortnightly appointment boiled over when I witnessed his indignant rebuttal of my efforts almost border on intimidation. Such behaviour as I witnessed appeared wholly hypocritical; he did not wish to express an interest in my idea by sticking to a regular fortnightly appointment, and now he's getting impatient with me?

Anyway, I witness such an incident as merely another instance where university staff attempt somehow to morally elevate themselves above their responsibilities to their students. Academic staff generally appear to expect a student to somehow respond to this distancing by devoting all one's time to the task of appeasement. It appears that this posture (this academic culture) is incompatible with me and my version of human respect.

Hence, without a better suggestion, I wish to withdraw from my degree program and finally cast aside once and for all time, any misguided notions of support and respect which may have been carelessly planted in my head as a younger man. I'm not a socially engaging individual, so regardless of how useful the contents of my mind might actually be (I'm making no claims here), I'm willing to accept that I don't have a personality type that disposes me to get on in academia.

This will be the last time you receive correspondence from me about this matter unless, after receiving encouragement to do so, I consider there are other points to make.

Who gives a toss...

Invention and the inventor.

These deliberations come to you today because I'm rather pissed off about how I am (or might be) treated as an inventor. If I am indeed treated in the way that I might be, the society in which I, you, and everyone else dwells aught not to laud curiosity and inventiveness as a way by which individuals receive a reward; it's a fallacy, backed up by relatively few success stories of arbitrary origin, which perpetuates the larger myth that one's individual efforts are rewarded. Legends like these are the bullshit that sustains the stupid (myself amongst them) to cough up a great idea only to have no consideration paid for it.

Posthumous awards may await - piss off if they do; I want recognition in this lifetime or none at all. In this lifetime, I need some one or more people to recognise a potential - to take a chance - in my ideas. The worst thing that could happen is that they're crap. Knowing that an idea is crap is knowledge (a reward) in itself.

Not knowing whether an idea is feasible or crap is frustration to the inquisitive. Not having people to help one find out the feasibility/crappiness of an idea only prolongs the frustration. Having someone else claim a another inventor's feasible idea is downright betrayal, and posthumous recognition of a feasible idea is a waste of the notion of a quid pro quo for an inventor's time.

I'll go on with this exercise, only because I have nothing better to do with my time antehumous (that sounds like a word) and so working on Clique Space may save me from an insanity that springs from boredom, until, like yourself, death catches me.

Clique Space(TM) is mine. Help me prove that it works while I'm alive god damn you.

Clique Space(TM) and Microsoft Lync.

A bit of a development this evening. I get a reply from someone I never expected to receive a reply from. This individual is an employee of Microsoft, and he replied to a message I sent inviting comment on Clique Space. I was told of a product called Lync; a fairly new offering by Microsoft which looks to be a collaboration environment of sorts based around Microsoft products.

I have replied to the response, and I quote the reply I put excluding identifying characteristics of the individual as I neither sought nor received permission to publish these.

Here it is

After reading what Microsoft's LYNC is offering, I'll now attempt to challenge you by explaining a bit about how Clique Space looks at things. I hope you might find what I say interesting, and I hope you might engage me in a conversation over Clique Space. LYNC looks like a good way to achieve a collaborative environment, but a cursory look over it points to there being shortcomings that I find are present in many other such environments.

I believe self-reference and simplicity is crucial for any collaborative environment. The Clique Space data model is self-referential, very simple, and very generic. However, this data model is also extremely customisable to the functioning of any medium, and so I claim is a very powerful way to represent any collaborative activity of people over cyberspace. Clique Space will model any current and future collaborative hardware or software device. Clique Space will even model collaborative activity of devices which you may think are not collaborative, and it will do this in a completely consistent way.

However, the implementation of Clique Space is a very substantial task; one for which I haven't got the capability myself. I need the help of others, and so I appeal to you in the hope that you might respond positively. Even after my cursory review of LYNC, I remain to be convinced that anything comparable to Clique Space currently exists.

Thanks for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Of course I respect trademarks, and Lync, being one, is given its due respect. Although I realise that publishing this post may generate future business opportunities, I do not expect to derive any income directly from the use of any other proprietary marks. It's a little hard to talk about something without actually naming it.

A trend in the industry of information. A trend in my mind.

The more I observe, the more I'm convinced that the IT industry isn't developing as much as it is merely aging along with a generation, called "baby boomer" that had taken to labelling generations that have followed by the last three letters of the alphabet; enough that it might keep itself happily bathed in hubris before death eventually enfolds its number.

Whoa... packing a cynical punch! Still, better than a nervous breakdown that would result from the self-consuming simper others, comfortably nestled in their educated piety, might find entertaining.

Some interest in Clique Space(TM)

I have been receiving some interest in my concept. This is great to see because I'm rather hoping I'm not crazy about this stuff. Otherwise, I'd rather hope to be able to walk having tried my best, and having proven another concept of mine wrong.

Here's some of the comments I've received from some people who are involved in the identity community. I have tried to remove identifying characteristics of the individuals concerned.

1. This is extremely relevant in a federation and my initial cursor review of your paper sparks a bit of interest.
   
   
2. [In later correspondence, the same respondent as 1 commented] This fits and benefits various sized federation environments so I am more than fleetingly interested.
   
   
3. I'm somewhat interested in the idea since I've been thinking about the "Internet of Things" from a capability POV lately.
   

There have been other comments one could judge as largely positive made privately, but the comments I give here expressed sentiments I believe I could separate from identifying characteristics of the respondents while keeping their context.

A definition of the Client Device.

I can't leave it alone. My last posting has been niggling me since I posted it. If I don't clearly define this Client Device term, I feel as though a central piece of my concept becomes ambiguous, and my concept weakens.

My concept is clear. Although it has become clearer because I've given time to its implementation in a computer language, the concept has not changed substantially since I put it down in my prov January 2008.

Here's a clear definition: A Client Device describes properties about the device and the individual that controls it. The Client Device is a manifestation of any physical hardware device, software process, or any other concept that can be so expressed in Clique Space. The Client Device is hence, a realisation of a Clique Space entity as a compendium of Clique Space Elements. This notion is left intentionally philosophical because the concept quickly fractures when you try to explain a Client Device as a particular arrangement of Clique Space Elements; I think it's best to think of a Client Device as a holistic, though still discrete entity; instances of which can be expressed through different collections of Clique Space Elements.

Glad to have gotten that off my chest.

(Apparent) Errata from 5 October

I've just looked at the blog I put up on 5 October, and there appear to be some statements of inaccuracy in it.

It appears to me currently that a Client Device does not have the register with the Clique Space(TM) owner to become an active participant in Clique Space. It currently appears sufficient only to participate in a Clique with the serving Agent Device for the particular Clique Space in question.

Additionally, one Client Device is not described by a single Connection. The Client Device is actually a dissection through a weird, multidimensional beast made up of one combination of all the Clique Space Elements. One Connection normally is associated to one Account which might have multiple Active Affiliations which associate the given device to multiple roles as expressed through the multiple Affiliations. Each Affiliation is normally expressed as an association between one Account and one Account Profile.

It's still, as ever it was, a work in progress.