Monthly Archives: February 2007

Google Error

Hmm…. seems like maybe Google needs turn down the sensitivity just a bit on their virus/spyware detector. (note the search term)

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strong authentication and emailing passwords

So this afternoon, I happened across i@mdentity listed in the OpenID Directory. They seem to be some kind of identity provider in the UK that has their own authentication protocol that they have a small number of vendors using. In addition to this centralized authentication, they also support OpenID. What really caught […]

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new wpopenid (r13)

So I’ve made a few updates to my port of wpopenid, and feel like this is coming along rather nicely. The full list of changes can be found on my project page, along with download links, subversion URLs, etc. Note that as of this writing, the latest version is r13, which is actually […]

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One year at USC

One year ago today, February 15, 2006, was my first official day here at USC. If I recall correctly, I spent most of that day filling out HR paperwork and then leaving a little early to hunt for an apartment, but it marked the beginning nonetheless. I generally like to look back on […]

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Unobtrusive wpopenid

I’ve been meaning to install Alan Castonguay’s wpopenid wordpress plugin to enable OpenID authenticated comments for some time now. I finally got around to it tonight, and was overall pleased with it, despite a few minor bugs. More importantly though, I later ran across Sam Ruby’s post entitled “Unobtrusive OpenID” in which he […]

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