After I tried to set this blog as my own OpenID provider using the OpenID WordPress plugin, I got a weired error message: “This is an OpenID Server, Nothing to See Here… Move Along” I could not find what as wrong, as all prerequisites were fulfilled, until I find this nice post. The patch there [...]
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Deleteyouraccount.com to easily get rid off social networking
Deleteyouraccount.com is a very convenient website if you consider deleting your account from one of these social networking sites that are everywhere now. Of course, they all do their best to make it difficult, trying to hide it and discourage you. Here Deleteyouraccount comes to help. I will still take a few days of thoughts, [...]
My new toy
No, it is not a computer this time. And yes, it is off topic, but I wanted to thank a Japanese friend for his gift and, at the same time, promote his work : He owns a small company in Hokkaido producing a number of wood toys. He is an artist and designs them, which [...]
SecurityFocus changing
A big change on Security Focus is going to happen. Except the vulnerability database, most of its content and resources are going to move to Symantec. RIP.
bugmenot.com
I just discovered the BugMeNot service today. It offers a database of logins shared by the community to login to free websites that require free registration. This is usually annoying to subscribe to such a website just to download a freeware or read an article, and it often makes people choose unsecured or random logins. [...]
Privacy and Facebook
That is exactly why I have never used – and will never use – Facebook or anything like that.
Anti-IE 6 campaign
I found this initiative, apparently started in Sweden, quite funny but also educative. So I just set up the Shockingly Big IE6 Warning plugin in this blog. Then I became curious and checked the stats of this site : So there is still about 9% of our visitors that are running IE 6 and 3% [...]
Ryan Farmer is a spammer
For those who still don’t know, Ryan Farmer would be a spammer and a liar. Quite embarassing to be caught like that. Maybe all this is a lot of noise, but such people deserve a good lesson of living in society. Really.
