Every once and a while, The Onion still makes me smile. Many U.S. Cities Losing Battles To Preserve Their Burger Kings Quote: In Seattle, volunteer canvassers went door-to-door, collecting signatures to save the Burger King on Rainier Avenue. As a result of their efforts, Mayor Greg Nickels granted the store historic-landmark status. "There are children… Continue reading Many U.S. Cities Losing Battles To Preserve Their Burger Kings
New Spectaclar newsfeed
I've implemented a news feed for Spectaclar that's a general purpose open source access control feed, that will probably also veer a lot into authentication, identity, and other single signon stuff. It includes updates on Spectaclar, but also incorporates outside blogs. It uses the reFeed component of reBlog. reBlog is very, very cool...it makes it… Continue reading New Spectaclar newsfeed
First cut at BZ/OpenID integration
It's still pretty rough around the edges, but now there's a patch to add OpenID authentication support to Bugzilla. It's not ideal, as it still requires you to go through the email ping-pong process, but the good news is that once you tie an OpenID identifier to your BZ account, you can authenticate via your… Continue reading First cut at BZ/OpenID integration
daiycaja
When I was running the Helix Community IRC channel, I would get mildly frustrated with people who would show up and say "can I ask a question?" or something to that effect. Apparently, the phenonena isn't unique to Helix, and the frustration isn't unique to me. I've seen lots of topic lines on Freenode stating… Continue reading daiycaja
Spectaclar Updates
I've been working on a bunch of miscellaneous stuff this week which are loosely related to the "Spectaclar" project: A lot of wiki cleanup - I think I got most of the dead links, so that there's at least stub articles everywhere there's a link Patch to MediaWiki - not a huge contribution, but one… Continue reading Spectaclar Updates
Seattle Bus Monster
The Seattle Bus Monster is one of the cooler examples of Google abuse that I've seen yet. Merges Google Maps and the funky real-time bus tracker app.
Monster Engine – Enhancing kid art
Here's the site for a guy who embellishes the crap out of kids' drawings. They still are very recognizable as the kids' orginal work, but he takes them in a freaky, surreal direction.
Spectaclar: Authorization first
More on Spectaclar. Haven't done much today on the site, as I've been working on Mediawiki and riding my bike and enjoying being a slacker. There's a blurb that I just added to the site that's probably worth blogging. The primary focus for this site, at the time of this writing, is authorization, as opposed… Continue reading Spectaclar: Authorization first
16 acres of floor space in MO
Want to buy 16 acres (under roof) of warehouse space in Missouri? My parents have just the thing for you. They tend to buy a lot of things they don't need.
Spectaclar
Well, I'm ready to start talking about "Spectaclar", which is my new website (and hopefully community) around open source access control. I've written a rather long explanation of what Spectaclar is about. To summarize, I'm trying to find a few really good open source web applications, understand their access control mechanisms, and begin to try… Continue reading Spectaclar
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