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Single serving sites: Now unhip

Friday | March 7, 2008 | 6:03 pm  

Single serving sites — thanks Kottke for the name — are all the rage.

But now, they must be considered un-hip, for I have one.

From now until I decide to stop doing it iwantopenid.com will display the name of the site I’d like next to embrace OpenID.

When the site I’ve chosen to direct my lack-of-OpenID scorn at succumbs to my single-serving petition I shall place a new name atop the list.

On a lark, if you’d like to nominate the next site, put it on del.icio.us with a tag of iwantopenid.

A warning to any site who considers providing OpenID without consuming it as well — there will be a special bit of shaming for you. Friends don’t let friends provide OpenID without consuming it.

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Some personal news

Saturday | December 3, 2005 | 7:13 pm  

So, after nearly 4 1/2 years, Erica and I are breaking off our engagement.

By getting married!

We started the planning nearly two months ago at the beginning of October and we’ve been meaning to blog about it — but I didn’t want to announce anything until it was final — eloping was always an option :-)

Cutting to the chase, I’ll try and keep the wedding stuff out of this blog and keep in “Somehting Blogged” (RSS) — our new joint blog with a design courtesy of my fiancee.

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Whatcha doing? PyObjC and WordPress

Thursday | January 20, 2005 | 12:59 pm  

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts called, unceremoniously, Whatcha doing?

So, without further ado, here’s what I’m doing:

• Learning PyObjC for a photo gallery project at work. A previous version of my gallery tool used Pashua as a fake GUI in conjunction with a Python command-line script/library I had previously created for my own personal use.

  The time has come to update the tool, and I’m working through Apple tutorial as modified by by the PyObjC folks.

• Considering WordPress for heisel.org

  Why? Partly because change is fun, partly because I don’t like rebuilding, partly because it’s written in a language I know and so can extend — though Python would be better :-).

• Reading Guns, Germs and Steel, which was a gift from Erica.

  I was worried that, like The Bell Curve, it would be an excuse for racism. If the introduction and first few chapters are accurate, it’s a very well thought-out and well-written anthropological/historical look at why some civilizations (read: white folks) have developed deep, complex cultures and technologies, while others haven’t.

• Watching Carnivale and Battlestar Galactica.

  Yeah, I’m geek — it’s just nice to have first run, quality sci-fi on the air since our dearly departed left us so long ago.

  Update: Apparently, Ron Moore has a blog.

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