On being an accidental NSTIC Pilot Yenta
The first person who I heard calling herself a Yenta was Deborah Elizabeth Finn who I met via my participation in the Nonprofit Technology world and the NTEN community. She is "the Cyber Yenta" helping nonprofit folks figure out their technology needs and match making. Yenta is a Yiddish word for a woman who is...
Savor the irony
Now comes news (via Peter Kafka in All Things D and Jason Boog in Galleycat) that robot-written “stories” are turning up on the pages of Forbes and other publications. The robots are made by Narrative Science, which (says its About page) “started life as a joint research project at Northwestern University Schools of Engineering and Journalism.”...
Crucial SSD in Macbook Pro: Updating Firmware with a Dual Boot Partition
Last week I replaced the harddrive in my Macbook Pro with a Crucial M4 drive. I put the original harddrive back in the machine in place of the DVD drive, leaving me with a machine with no DVD, but a terabyte of diskspace between the...
Crucial SSD in Macbook Pro: Updating Firmware with a Dual Boot Partition
Last week I replaced the harddrive in my Macbook Pro with a Crucial M4 drive. I put the original harddrive back in the machine in place of the DVD drive, leaving me with a machine with no DVD, but a terabyte of diskspace between the...
Musing lazily about tells and poker faces
According to knowyourmeme, poker face is a “4pane exploitable series illustrating mostly awkward and sometimes embarrassing social situations, who always responds with a blank expression and a caption that reads “poker face”. This post is not about the meme. In other news, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta had a hit song with that title. Which gives...
OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Specification Draft -17
Draft 17 of the OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Specification has been published. This version changes the RFCs referenced for certificate chain verification. The wording was proposed by Alexey Melnikov as part of the Gen-ART review. It contains the following changes: Restore RFC 2818 reference for server identity verification and add RFC 5280 reference for certificate...
Calcutta blues
Some of you may have seen this news report already. As the BBC says “India’s Calcutta to be painted blue“. I was born there. Lived there for 23 years unbroken. And still consider myself a Calcuttan. [Enough to have named this blog after it]. So the story mattered to me. Yet my first instinct was...
OpenID Connect Interop in Progress
The Third OpenID Connect Interop is currently under way – this time based upon approved Implementer’s Drafts. Currently 7 implementations are being tested, with I believe more to be added. The interop is designed to enable people to test the implementations they’ve built against other implementations and verify that specific features that they’ve built are...
OpenID Connect Implementer’s Drafts Approved
The OpenID Foundation members have overwhelmingly voted to approve the OpenID Connect specifications as Implementer’s Drafts. This is an important milestone in the process of completing the OpenID Connect specifications. Implementer’s Drafts are stable versions of specifications intended for trial implementations and deployments that provide specific IPR protections to those using them. Implementers and deployers...
Event Channels
Recently I've been putting a lot of thought in to personal event networks and the need for federation between networks and the role notifications play in personal event networks. This is all part of a long journey to understand what I ...
SOCA and website takedowns
News that SOCA has reached out of the UK and into the .com domain to take down a music download website has provoked quite a reaction in the twittersphere (at least, that slightly geeky, slightly legal, slightly subversive segment of it that is visible...
The Jeremy Lin story
Why Jeremy Lin suddenly such hot stuff? Last night I listened to sports radio from ESPN, WFAN in New York, KNBR in San Francisco, and WEEI in Boston, as well as to KOVO here in Provo, Utah (where I’m hanging this week). One of the talkers put it best, saying something like this: “Let’s face it....
