John Merrells

Archive for May, 2008

Blogging about blogging

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

This post is going to be as tedious as the post ‘It’s been three years since my last blog post… and I still have nothing to say’ and the post ‘I’m taking a break from blogging…’. This is a post about blogging. A post about Pimping Up my blog.
Since my failure to get OpenID working [...]

wordpress and openid

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Goal of the day: OpenID enable this blog

what does this mean?

Well in abstract terms OpenID is an enabling technology that allows an internet user to mediate the flow of their digital identity information between websites. The user establishes a persona URL, like this blog, an identity URL managed by their Identity Provider, then mediates exchanges [...]

Cohesive FT is in InfoWord’s Top Ten

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

My friend Alexis Richardson is a provider of elastic to the financial world. Well, a provider of “Elastic Servers” that is, which are collections of applications packaged as virtual servers. The company he co-founded, Cohesive FT, has just appeared in InfoWorld’s top 10 tech startups for 2008. Hurrah!
The company name and corporate web pages are [...]

Wine Find ™

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I drank a bottle of wine yesterday - not much news in that really, since it’s a regular occurance. But, I happened to browse the verbiage on the back of the bottle and I noticed that part of the label was detachable. It had a tab that read ‘TO REMEMBER PEEL HERE’… and it had [...]