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{ Monthly Archives } January 2006

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?). We’ve finally […]

2006 01 17 Conference Comments (1)

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 […]

2006 01 06 Identity and Privacy Comments (3)

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 […]

2006 01 05 General
Technology Comments Off

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 Enabling […]

2006 01 03 Technology
WordPress Comments (3)