October 18th, 2007
Radar Networks, my former employer, is finally going public with what they’re up to. To be honest, at this point even I have no clue what they’re launching. I’ve been gone for a while, and they seem to have been massively busy and hiring the past 9 months. I’ll be watching intently, […]
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June 24th, 2007
To be honest, I’m not that much of a Smashing Pumpkins fan, but I think it’s cool that they’re breaking out of the normal box, and doing a rather odd tour this year. They’ve picked 2 cities to have a “residency” at. One of them is my town, Asheville, North Carolina.
9 shows between […]
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May 30th, 2007
In a thread on TheServerSide, commentors are discussing how much trust you can put into an OpenID identity. Even the OpenID literature speaks of a server that returns true to all queries. The argument seems to be that since you don’t control the OpenID server, you can’t trust the identity returned, making it […]
Posted in Identity, Social, Technology, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
May 15th, 2007
I got back from my first ever JavaOne, and I’d have to say it was a success.
First the obligatory “look how cool I am” section…
Name dropping
Misc
Drank too much with Hani of the BileBlog. Congratulated Cameron & John Purdy at the Tangosol party. Finally met Phil Dodds and Brett Porter, from DevZuz. Dan […]
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March 19th, 2007
This weekend, the wife suggested we go as a family to see the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
I’d never heard of it, so I googled using the searchbox in Firefox. I wasn’t thinking very clearly, and just typed “road to ter” and up popped some suggestions:
Of course, the movie is named Bridge to Terabithia, not […]
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March 16th, 2007
It’s Friday, and we all like having friends, so…
myspace.com/codehaus
myspace.com/jboss_org
And don’t act like you don’t have a MySpace account. You know you do.
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