Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before ’relax,’ said the night man, We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave!  [...]
Apparently the UK government are revisiting the idea of net censorship, in the context of anti-terrorism. UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith as reported in the “Guardian, Government targets extremist websites“: Speaking to the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme before her speech, Smith said there were specific examples of websites that “clearly fall under the category [...]
Googlefight: Word of the living God vs US Constitution (Inspired by the wit and wisdom of Ayatollah Huckabee) Looks like God’s got some HTMLing to do…
via Makenshi in #openid chat on Freenode IRC: <Makenshi>: I found a wireless captive portal solution that supports openid. With the newest release of CoovaAP, some new features in Chilli are demonstrated in combination with RADIUS to allow OpenID based authentication. (coova.org) I’m happy to see this. It’s very close to some ideas I was [...]
From the opensocial-api group, an OpenSocial Javascript API priorities document. “This page contains the updated priorities (in draft) for the next iteration (version 0.7) of the OpenSocial JavaScript API.”
According to Simon Willison, Flickr look set to support OpenID by allowing your photostream URL (eg. for me, http://www.flickr.com/photos/danbri/) to serve as an OpenID, ie. something you can type wherever you see “login using OpenID” and be bounced to Flickr/Yahoo to provide credentials instead of remembering yet another password. This is rather good news. For [...]
A couple weeks ago, in a pathetic and greedsome bid to monetize you all, I added Google Adsense ads to this blog. Needless to say, the jaded foaftards who read this thing aren’t the kind to go all clicky-buyey on adverts. When I finally earn a whole dollar, I’ll celebrate by having it converted to [...]
Three years ago, we lost Iran from Internet community. I simplify somewhat, but forgivably. Many Iranian ISPs cut off access to blogs and social networking sites, on government order. At the time, Iran was one of the most active nations on Orkut; and Orkut was the network of choice, faster than the then-fading Friendster, but [...]
I’ve always found HTML imagemaps to be a curiously neglected technology. They seem somehow to evoke the Web of the mid-to-late 90s, to be terribly ’1.0′. But there’s glue in the old horse yet… A client-side HTML imagemap lets you associate links (and via Javascript, behaviour) with regions of an image. As such, they’re a [...]