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 [...]

Eric Norlin, under the ZDNet banner, writes that a commentor suggests that there should be an ‘Ethernet’ of Identity Protocols. My belief is that the Digital Identity eXchange (DIX) effort within the IETF will produce just such a protocol. The group is currently working on a revision of the protocol that makes use of existing [...]

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Originally uploaded by merrells.

Stowe may have sold his chest space for the next six months, but he’ll always have his sxip underware on.

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addthis_title = ‘Stowe%26%238217%3Bs+Underware’;
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Yesterday I went to buy a car. For once quite a nice sales guy. We have a test drive and he does his little presentation about various features then we go back to his desk to work out a deal. He starts prodding the keyboard on his PC trying to log into some archaic mainframe [...]

Too damn busy to blog.
Given that complexity and change are the only constant in my life… I’ve decided to switch from declaring my plans to reporting what’s happened. My last declared plan was for a move to London to start on a new venture, but what actually happened was a move back to California.
Plus [...]