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The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge

First Published on September 27, 2011 - 1,962 Views

In “The Analytical Language of  John Wilkins” The Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges illustrated the problematic nature of scientific classification when he quoted from an ancient Chinese encyclopedia

The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge

On these remote pages in a complete absence of phylum, genus and species, animals are divided into:

  • Those that belong to the emperor
  • Embalmed ones
  • Those that are trained
  • Suckling pigs
  • Mermaids
  • Fabulous ones
  • Stray dogs
  • Those that are included in this classification
  • Those that tremble as if they were mad
  • Innumerable ones
  • Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
  • Others
  • Those that have just broken the flower vase
  • Those that, at a distance, resemble flies

There is some debate as to whether or not The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge existed outside of Borges imagination (Borges was a noted surrealist and included amongst his works was The Book of Imaginary Beings and several reviews of nonexistent books by fictitious authors.

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Predictions for 2010 – AppSense

First Published on December 10, 2009

Twelve years ago while I was running IT for a military hospital in Jeddah Saudi Arabia, the senior exec in charge of the hospital let me in on the secret of how the Irish were given the ability to predict the sex of a baby before it was born. The trick is, he said, to make the prediction as soon as the pregnancy is announced and never to repeat yourself until the birth.

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Give us your poor, your tired, your user environment management specialists

First Published on December 8, 2009

I don't appear to be able to step out of the house for an espresso at Peet's right now without hearing a jet-lagged English accent struggling with the difficulties of ordering a decent cup of tea (that would be the hot kind) while trying to explain the relationship between application management and contextual entitlement. 

Or to put it another way, AppSense are packing their bags, leaving good old Blighty and moving to the Bay area. 

With Sun, Wyse, RingCube and vmWare already well established here, Citrix's XenDesktop team getting settled in and now AppSense, pretty soon you won't be able to move round here for desktop virtualization talent.

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Work is a thing we do, not a place we go to

First Published on October 21, 2009

I really need to get away from writing about licensing but I can’t without one last post.

Shane Wescott from Appsense has posted a short video on the AppSense YouTube Channel explaining how AppSense Application Manager can be used to enforce software licensing rules.

The thing is, I can’t help but think how good a job Shane does in exposing just how outdated the per device licensing model has become.

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