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I’ve recently been getting interested in the area of digital identity. This has been in some part due to the fact that I felt that the government’s ID cards scheme (and more importantly the database(s) behind it) were wrong, but didn’t feel I knew enough about this area to speak with authority on it. [...]

When I was putting together the poster I presented at XPDay recently I needed pictures to put in it. Since it is in comic strip style, it would look a bit odd without them. So I went off to Flickr and did a search for images with Creative Commons licences which would allow [...]

Rachel Davies questions the use of the term “Refactoring” and suggests that it is confusing to business people. She suggests the term “Tidying up” instead. While I like this, I can see a possibility that those business people might now think it is not very important. I think it should be considered [...]

Sometimes using ssh can be a bit of a pain, especially when you regularly log into different hosts with different usernames using different authentication methods. At work, I log into local Unix boxes using a DSA key. Sometimes though, I want to log into a box at Textdrive as a different user, using a [...]

I went to XPDay in London last week. My thoughts are recorded at my work blog split into Day 1 and Day 2 respectively.

This blog has moved from Blogger to a Wordpress installation hosted at Textdrive. I did this because I think Wordpress is fantastic (I never thought I’d say that about a PHP app, but there you go) and because this gives me complete control over everything.