http://www.johnmerrells.com Entrepreneur. Engineer. Nice Guy. Sun, 25 May 2008 19:56:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.johnmerrells.com/2008/05/25/blogging-about-blogging/ 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 ... http://www.johnmerrells.com/2008/05/22/wordpress-and-openid/ 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 ... http://www.johnmerrells.com/2008/05/20/cohesive-ft-is-in-infowords-top-ten/ 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 ... http://www.johnmerrells.com/2008/05/12/physical-url-bookmark/