Archive for January, 2007
Miha replied to my post on PPIDs, with some interesting questions. However, everybody says “no passwords” — I beg to differ. This is exactly the same situation as it is with client certificates. You are quite correct sir. Using personal information cards are very very very similar to using client certificates. So, what’s the [...]
I promised Vittorio that I’d write a post on PPIDs (Priavte Personal Identitifers), especially since he’s gotten around to his. With CardSpace, the PPID is a claim that the built-in STS will generate. It’s the only claim that a personal card can have that the user doesn’t get to control. How it [...]
Today, I present a tiny little app that I built to help out pasting URLs in various contexts. TinyUrler watches the clipboard for things that look like URLs, sends them off to TinyUrl to get shrunk down, and puts it back in the clipboard. Pretty simple, no extra features, just a quick and dirty [...]
It’s a quite a tale, but one worth sharing. I have spent the last 17 years in Calgary. Quite a nice city, nestled at the edge of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Calgary is referred to as “Cowtown” as it’s know for (among other things) horses, ranches, cattle, and of course the Calgary [...]
