If you access my front page you’ll see that I’ve made a temporary modification to include random photos. This doesn’t signal a redesign as much as a need to add a little bright color to my page. I was inspired to this move, as I sit inside and watch yet another thunderstorm roll past. These […]
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I, URL
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My first exposure to the concept of a ‘federated identity’, or a digital identity or ID if you will, was when I had to obtain one of the first Microsoft Passport identities in order to access the material I needed to finish my book, Developing ASP Components. I was pleased […]
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Banging heads for fun and profit
I managed to get LID installed, and you can see it in operation here. I’m in the middle of another one of my multi-page essays on digital ID generally and LID specifically, and hopefully will be finished tonight, or tomorrow. I bet you’re sitting there just holding your breath, excited down to your privates at the thought of […]
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Self-documenting technology
Danny Ayers points to a Jon Udell article about dynamic documentation managed by the folks who use a product, rather than relying on stuffy old material provided by the organization making the software. In it, Jon writes: Collectively, we users know a lot more about products than vendors do. We eventually stumble across every undocumented feature or quirk. […]
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Good news bad news
The Good News is: The trackback and comment spammers couldn’t get through while my ISP was under DDoS attack this evening.