This is Basiscraft.Com

"Basiscraft" is a coinage that tries to express the concept of advancing in life by preparing to meet unexpected opportunities. In any endeavor (software development, politics, philosophy, home economics, love, etc.) when we have momentarily spare resources we should spend them to sharpen our tools -- our basis set -- to be better prepared for the next challenge. There are better and worse ways to prepare but to select the better ones it takes forms of practice that yield skills, experience, and resources. It requires, in other words, an aesthetic judgement combined with skilled practice. So there is, by definition, a craft to it. A basis craft: the practice of being ready to improve things.

Basiscraft is the exercise of manufacturing future liberties.

Recent stuff I've worked on:

• The Flower web service.
• An initial attempt to turn basiscraft into a business model . Yes you may (probably) and are encouraged to (at least try) to hire me to think and express my thoughts about something you are interested in that you and I agree I might have insight about if I study it and act.
• A solicited reaction to the EOT Submission to W3C by Microsoft. I'm agin' it (opposed) but I think that the effort EOT backers say they are making is noble enough that I'd like to go on record mentioning a better way to do it!.
• [Thu Nov 6 22:45 2008] As the discussion of EOT continues I've noticed three things: First, the legitimate controversies around EOT have nothing specific to do with Microsoft -- rather, there are principled reasons to resist the proposal. Second, there appears to be some confusion (under-estimation) as to the legal concerns around EOT -- for example, questions about patents on EOT and about DMCA are just side-shows to the real concerns. Third, and curiously enough, I'm not so sure EOT has to be entirely rejected -- rather, the question is how exactly EOT will be specified. Over the next few days I'll publish some brief and (I hope) easily digested white papers to try to clear up the confusions but, for now, I'll start just with an editted-for-context excerpt from some email I've exchanged on the topic