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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.

Entries for Thursday, February 22, 2007

February 22, 2007

Tumblr

Attractive lightweight simplistic blogging tool. “If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.”

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Toothpaste For Dinner blog: My adventures in Second Life

Heh. Glad to see I’m not the only one trying to understand the draw of Second Life.

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prooveme.com: strong authentication for openid

OpenID provider which uses SSL client certificates, not passwords, to authenticate. Doesn’t work terribly well (I haven’t successfully logged in anywhere with it!), but a clever idea for an unphishable OpenID. [Update: I’ve got it working a couple of places now. Not clear at whose end the remaining bugs lie.]

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Schneier on Security: CYA Security

I U+2665 Bruce Schneier. “Much of our country’s counterterrorism security spending is not designed to protect us from the terrorists, but instead to protect our public officials from criticism when another attack occurs.”

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.