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"Shut out the world for just a moment."

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:15:50 -0400

“Shut out the world for just a moment.”

- Dove Promises® Message

"The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them."

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:40:42 -0400

“The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.”

- ~ Michelle Hammersley

Wish you were here

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:10:00 -0400

Wish you were here

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:57:04 -0400

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At popcorn flicks for “Back to the Future”.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:12:39 -0400

At popcorn flicks for “Back to the Future”.

Photo

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:53:44 -0400

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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:52:08 -0400

"Few people know how to be old."

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:06:00 -0400

“Few people know how to be old.”

- La Rochefoucauld

"Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance;..."

Wed, 13 May 2009 10:37:00 -0400

“Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.”

- unknown

"Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance where they grow; But crushed and trodden to the ground,..."

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:14:00 -0400

“Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance where they grow; But crushed and trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.”

- Goldsmith

"Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others..."

Fri, 08 May 2009 13:31:00 -0400

“Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.”

- Lydia M. Child

"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves..."

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:43:00 -0400

“Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity..."

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:50:00 -0400

“Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.”

- Friedrich Schiller

I hereby apologise for the damage done.

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:47:25 -0400

I hereby apologise for the damage done.

Some simple examples of what you'll be able to accomplish with identity addresses (like OpenID)

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:33:00 -0400

The concept of OpenID isn’t limited to single sign-on. It is far, far more than that. OpenID is an identity address through which, you can publish anything and everything about yourself and where others can go for information about you, for example, feeds you generate, your contact information, your calendars, or any other service or information you want to publish.

Contact/address book capabilities

Automatic updates to your contacts’ information.
- For example, a friend you haven’t spoken to in a year has moved and changed phone numbers. If you have their identity URL in your address book, they simply update their contact information in their own profile and when you next access that contact, it’ll refer to their identity URL and verify that the information is current.
Presence management.
- For example, your contacts can publish their current, preferred contact preferences in their profile and, in real-time, when you want to contact them, you can be notified of exactly how they’d prefer you reach them or even whether they’d prefer to not be disturbed.
Feed aggregation of any or all contacts.

Calendaring capabilities

Publishing calendars and events through your identity address.
Subscribe to notifications.
- For example, you take your car into the shop. They enter your identity address in your records. You can go home and subscribe to the shop’s repair status service and track the progress of the repairs to your car.
- For example, you have an appointment for a teeth cleaning tomorrow. Your dentist can request verification via your identity address by updating the event to which you subscribed.

Single Sign-on

Sign-in once, access the world.
Provides services with the ability to aggregate other services you use.
- For example, services like mint.com currently require log-in credentials for all your financial services. This is highly insecure but also a very beneficial service. A better technique is to authorize mint.com access to your account only while you are authenticated with your identity address. They never have direct log-in access to any account.

Security

Completely secure messaging
- All the capabilities above will be selective. As much or as little information can be made available to as wide or narrow an audience as the user chooses.
Password protection
- Having only one service that has to manage a password is more secure than providing password for services all over the place.
- The service that manages the identity address can focus on secure authentication services while letting other services specialize in whatever they do best.
- Not having to type passwords over and over adds to security.
- Having fewer passwords enhances security by eliminating the need to write it down.

All of this and much, much more are capable and in an open protocol so no one will be locked into any service.

Think of an identity address as a passport or driver license. It is the secure means of identifying yourself online and will be your means of identifying yourself to sites and services.

Rich get richer

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:12:00 -0400

Our current economic situation is an example of why greed is bad. Lots of rich people have and are profiting from this mess, which they mostly created, while the rest of us are going to be devastated, or worse. We’ve been hoodwinked. Greedy individuals have manipulated the economy into a situation in which everything around us can be purchased at a fraction of its value.

For one thought on who might have helped orchestrate this, read these two articles from July 2006 “Cheneys betting on bad news?” and from July 2007 “Is Dick Cheney Betting Against the Dollar?” which states:

“This should put to rest once and for all the foolish notion that the “Bush Economic Plan” is anything more than a scam aimed at looting the public till. The whole deal is intended to shift the nation’s wealth from one class to another. It’s also clear that Bush-Cheney couldn’t have carried this off without the tacit approval of the thieves at the Federal Reserve who engineered the low-interest rate boondoggle to put the American people to sleep while they picked their pockets.”

While we were afraid of being attacked by terrorists we were being raped by these dirty, nasty Republicans and they’re so confident in their scam that the raping continues with this “bailout”. Are the rich that caused this fiasco giving back all their ill-gotten gains? No. They’re essentially saying we, the people being raped, have to all scrounge for change so that we can buy these disgusting individuals new homes and cars, while ours are being taken from us. From all the deregulation to being the most secretive administration of all time, you should make no bones about this being caused and planned by Republicans and Bush Inc. They began the first term by having closed-door talks on energy policy with Enron, some of the greatest con-artists in a life-time, for which the records of the meetings have still not been released. Surprise! This is Enron x1000.

The sad part, though, is that no one cares. We’ve all become so manipulated by capitalism that we accept that any profit is good profit. Besides, most of us would be the same greedy bastards. Why no calls for accountability? Because we’re sedated by lies claiming action. Just like we were lied to about the war, we’re being lied to about the economy. Bush Inc reframed the argument for war on terror as a need to liberate Iraq instead of answering why and who caused 9/11 and fighting for accountability. And they are reframing this economic disaster as “bailout” instead of answering why and who caused this devastation and fighting for accountability. They’re not calling for accountability because they’re complicit in the devastation. There is simply no other reason. Anyone uninvolved in the destruction of so much should ask why and who. Anyone in power should ask why and who and act on the answers. If they don’t, it’s likely they are involved.

Sometime around September 30th is International Vague Day

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:14:00 -0400

Prepare to vague.

I'm so incredibly sick of email as identity!

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:16:08 -0400

Email was never intended to be used for identity purposes. Please, everyone stop using it to identify accounts. Sure, use it to register for accounts but never make it the account identity. Email addresses change. In the future, hopefully, no one will even have a fixed, static email address, each address being one-time use. At the very least, provide an option for a user name, otherwise, implement OpenID. OpenID is incredibly easy to support. Or do whatever but don’t, don’t, don’t use email addresses.

What happened Jon?!

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:56:34 -0400

Can’t hold Tony’s feet to the flame? “No democracies have gone to war?” Bull.

The biggest problem i have with the Republican Party

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:51:22 -0400

Is its dependence on the religious right.

This is the group that:

keep insisting creationism is science.
abstinence is the only sex education that should be taught - against stacks of evidence proving otherwise.
want to throw out the first amendment - thinking America should be a theocracy, a Christian nation.
protect child-molesting priests.
fear their supposedly all-loving creator.
want to amend the Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage.
ban and burn “indecent” or “obscene” books.

They have such tunnel-vision and are so arrogant and close-minded that they can not accept other possibilities. They can not accept that others believe differently than them or they simply don’t care. Regardless of the friendly face they sport to get people into positions of power, they have an agenda of hatred, ignorance immorality and prejudice as stated above. To me, these people are lunatics and incredibly dangerous to the US Constitution. We’ve seen how dangerous having a Republican Congress and President have been to our Republic. The secrets, lies, war, and corruption were all enabled in part by those ideals and have destroyed our standing in the world and have torn the Country apart along party lines.

I have to believe that many Republicans don’t believe in the points above which makes me wonder why they can still support the Republican party. These points are direct attacks on what is America, the Constitution and our freedom.