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• Firefox, Are You Listening?

  Pam Dingle has a wonderful suggestion about how Firefox should proceed with automatic updates. Those of us building identity selector technology that integrates closely with browsers need stable browsers to work with. That’s always tough after a major release, but Pam’s suggestion makes sense. Read More... Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 2:02 PM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: General

• Batch File to Delete Duplicate MP3s

  Sharing this since it was pretty useful to me... I noticed recently that I had a huge amount of duplicate files in my MP3 library. I think what had happened was that, on an iTunes upgrade, I'd rebuilt my iTunes index with iTunes set to 'Copy files to library'. The result was thousands of files with names like "01 I Can't Explain 1.mp3", where iTunes had copied "01 I Can't Explain.mp3" into the same directory, but had to rename the file. So... What to do... Well, after seeing that the duplicate files Read More... Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 10:51 AM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments Filed under: General, MP3, itunes, batch

• 45th and 46th Mersennse Primes found ... at Sun!

  GIMPS has released a statement indicating that the 45th and 46th Mersenne primes were recently found at Sun by Tom Duell (right here in Burlington, MA) and Rob Giltrap (Wellington, New Zealand). Both ran on Sparc based systems. Congratulations! tags: mathematics prime numbers Read More... Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 12:20 PM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: General, mathematics

• Eve Finds Another Intersection

  I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, I’ll use this to help orient conversations around why there needs to be a simple, [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:51 PM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, user-centric, Information Cards, privacy, General, XDI, I-Cards, Social Web, VRM, Data Portability, r-cards, Relationship cards, Eve Maler, Venn diagrams

• While I am on this privacy tangent ...

  Amazingly enough, it took less than 24 hours to see the first massive privacy issues flaring up with Google Chrome. In a CNET interview, Peter Eckersley of the EFF says: "We're worried that Chrome will be another giant conveyer belt moving private information about our use of the Web into Google's data vaults," Eckersley said. "Google already knows far too much about what everybody is thinking at any given moment. Now this is a total surprise, is it not? Not only can Google read all your mail, knows Read More... Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:06 AM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity, privacy, General, google chrome

• T minus 8

  Just in time for First Beam, the LHC staff has released a video. It's geeky, but quite funny: > > Watch First Beam on September 10 at http://webcast.cern.ch/ Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:57 PM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: General

• Making a Difference in a Sustainable Way

  Prompted by James' post , I just joined Kiva - a microfinance clearing house connecting individual lenders in developed countries (or indeed anywhere ) with entrepreneurs from impoverished communities around the world. These are people who want to change their lives, but have little or no access to capital from traditional sources such as banks and credit cards. It's a great concept - as it's repaid, you can relend the money to other borrowers again and again and again. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:55 PM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments Filed under: General, microfinance, kiva

• Google's Path to World Domination

  No, I am not talking about Google Chrome (yet). But it is related: if you look at it seems that Germany has already conquered Denmark, Benelux, Switzerland, and Austria-Hungary. It could also be a the EUSSR with its capital in Brussels... Or maybe this is a completely new country call "Googleland", where every citizen deposits all their data in a save datacenter, identified by a unique id. "Information Self-Determination" is a basic human right, and any data merchant will get shot on sight. The only Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:20 AM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: humor, privacy, General

• Freedom of Press? In Massachusetts? Nah ...

  This is just another installment of how the freedom of expression and scientific research is being sacrificed on the altar of "public safety" and "property rights". From the CNET article : "A federal judge on Saturday granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system." To summarize this incident: a couple of student find a giant security hole is a publicly financed Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:09 PM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: General, mbta, civil rights

• Giving credit where credit is due ...

  I just laughed out loud: Go King Homer I. of Spain! tags: humor , simpsons Read More... Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 5:20 PM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: humor, General, simpsons

• A patently good idea

  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is considering to invalidate many (if not most) software patents and significantly restrict the issuance of new process patents. No doubt, intellectual property does deserve decent protection, and I think that this move by the USPTO will in fact result in better protection of property: copyright law provides ample protection against IPR theft while not getting in the way of real innovations. To draw a technical comparison, process patent law protects the Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:39 PM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: General, Interoperability, ipr, patents

• Vacation Beckons

  Whoever thought we’d be using blogs for vacation notices? But until we have real Internet-wide presence service, it seems much more sane than problem-prone email bounce-backs. So count on me to be completely offline (and I mean completely) until August 4th. I’ll blog more on why when I return (in complete bliss). Read More... Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:06 PM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: Blogging, General

• Joe Nails it Open

  Joe Andrieu nails another super post (where DOES he find the time to write/draw all of these???), this time about what it means for a platform to really be open. My favorite part is that he doesn’t just do it in words — he does it in pictures, deliciously simple and understandable graphics that make it [...] Read More... Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 2:56 AM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: General, XDI, VRM, Dataweb, Joe Andrieu, open platform

• Relationship Cards (R-Cards)

  So much for the naïve thought that I’d have time at the Burton Catalyst conference last week to finally blog about two subjects near and dear to my heart that I knew would be covered at the conference. It backfired because they were too topical—all available time was consumed by related conversations. I did manage two [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:11 AM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Metasystem, Information Cards, General, XDI, Higgins, I-Cards, Social Web, Identity Rights Agreements, VRM, xrds, Data Portability, r-cards, Bob Blakley, Relationship cards, Burton Group, Joe Andrieu, Eve Maler, Relationship Layer

• High Potential?

  The current economic situation is not exactly ideal: amongst many significant issues, one of the most concrete and pressing problems of today is the highly volatile energy market. Many current problem in the world (such as clean water, food, housing) could be solved almost completely, given that there is sufficient energy at hand[1]. Electric energy generation has seen a variety of approaches: some of them are quite childish, while others lack in public acceptance. Ultimately, only a sound mix of Read More... Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 8:42 AM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: General