It’s been a long time since I’ve indulged in any poetry at the site. Been a long time since I’ve haunted poets.org to look for just the right verse to suit a picture or a mood. This week, I oiled my inner poet and set it on its creaky way only to find out that poets.org has […]
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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 […]