Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I removed the last paragraph from my last posting. It added nothing to the discussion and was unnecessarily snarky. Still, doing so doesn’t impact on the message threaded throughout the post that *I’m not supportive of universal (read that ‘federated’) digital identities. I don’t believe there is a system that […]
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You want we should what?
I’ve briefly mentioned Microsoft’s InfoCards, and chances are you may have heard snippets of it elsewhere. InfoCards is the company’s planned implementation of a digital identity infrastructure it terms “Identity Metasystem”. Johannes Ernst of LID fame provides a good, plain language description and scenario for the concept. Though much of the details are still unknown, we do […]
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The i86 applesauce
How do you make i86 Applesauce? You take an Apple, carve out the PowerPC core, replacing it with Intel sugar and a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. Then you hold a press conference, throw the Apple to the developers, buyers, and vendors, and let their agitation smash it all to hell. What’s left is a […]
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Wordform: Release
I’m reaching a burn out point in trying to enhance and support Wordform (and get it ready for a release) and do enough work to pay the bills. At this time, I’m working 15+ hours a day, and it’s taking a toll. What I’ll most likely do is release bits of the tool as extensions […]
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What’s the use?
Wayback Machine has copy of this story with comments Last week I had an email from a person writing an anger management manual, who wanted permission to quote my old posts about using anger as a weapon against helplessness. In the posts, I wrote about Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman’s research into a cause of depression he termed […]