March 2007
4 posts
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Way Way Over The Edge
Headline shamelessly copied from tbray.org.
Stop, right now, and read Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations).
If you are not as disgusted as I am, I think you need to read it again.
I think the saddest thing of all is that it doesn’t surprise me at all that there are people like that out there. Really sad.
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Comments, and OpenID
OpenID authentication now required for all comments.
OpenID seems to be finally catching on outside LiveJournal, with the announcement that AOL are providing OpenIDs for all AOL/AIM users, and with waffle going OpenID for comments, I decided I’d implement OpenID for Soapbox comments. The idea being that if I ever open any of the little side things I’ve been mucking around with...
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The next step
The future is friendly, or at least surprisingly devoid of cougars. If it goes to plan, at least.
A couple of weeks ago the rapidly approaching date of my visa expiration spurred a discussion at work. There may also have been discussion between the voices inside my head, but face it: when one of them is arguing that we should just pack it in and move to the country and drink beer, it’s...
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A couple of things
Have a stiff drink, then read.
The experiment of writing in the second person will now come to an end. It’s been 5 months and while it was kind of fun, it was also rather tiring. It also gets hard to keep straight, because lets face it, your brain forgets who is who. Of course given a quarter of a chance it forgets what country it’s in, this shouldn’t surprise anyone.
I...