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This is the first of a series of posts on Sun Microsys­tem’s OpenID@Work ser­vice, which is an OpenID Iden­tity Pro­vider avail­able for use by Sun employ­ees. [Update: I was asked what the pur­pose of these post­ings is — it’s simply to share our exper­i­ences in the hope that they’re help­ful to oth­ers.] I was part […]

Phil Karlton said (at least once in my hear­ing any­way) that nam­ing things was one of the two hard tasks in com­puter sci­ence (read­ing X Toolkit Intrins­ics — C Lan­guage Inter­face, to which he con­trib­uted, will give you some idea why he said it); I dis­covered the truth of this yet again when writ­ing the […]

Dar­ren Bare­foot has some inter­est­ing thoughts about pri­vacy in the inter­net age and the way in which today’s north amer­ican teen­agers are grow­ing up post­ing everything about their lives on the inter­net. Up till now, most of the dis­cus­sion I’ve read on the sub­ject has revolved around the effects on future careers of post­ing potentially […]