Northern Voice 2006

I’m on the organising committee for Northern Voice again this year, the small, non-corporate blogging conference that was such fun last year. This year promises to be just as good, although I’ll be coming in jetlagged and won’t make it to the add-on Moose Camp (y’all have a good time there without me, ok?).
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Learning Identity

One of the things I’ve found about trying to figure out identity management concepts and technology is that there are lots of nuances, lots of things to worry about, and it tends to make you more wary (which I guess is all to the good). I now am more careful about whether websites have believable [...]

Phishing Sophistication

I’m starting to be impressed by the (almost) sophistication of phishing attempts. The latest one in my inbox today contained a message from someone purporting to have bought an item via eBay that they hadn’t received and unless they heard back they were going to complain to eBay and then the police - I can [...]

Woody to Sarge

Ive been intending on upgrading my Debian firewall/blog box to the latest version, called ’sarge’ (a.k.a 3.1) for some months now. Today was the day I decided to finally bite the bullet. Since I’ve been using backports of unstable versions of software, such as MySQL (see Upgrading MySQL on Debian for that process, and [...]