Kudos to Microsoft for announcing its intention to bring OpenID support to HealthVault, and congratulations to TrustBearer for being HealthVault’s first announced OpenID provider! Assuming Microsoft isn’t just in this for the press release, and gets support for this turned on fairly quickly, this is the first public enterprise-grade OpenID Relying Party of which I’ve [...]
Nathan Bell blogs about how he wishes OpenID would just go away, or at least fade into the background so that users don’t have to know quite so much to use it. I really like how he’s thinking over there, and will take some time to write up my thoughts on most of it sometime [...]
I was at lunch today with Chris Messina and some others from Vidoop, and somehow as often happens with me, we got into a very interesting discussion about the way Microsoft does things. In particular, Chris indicated some frustration with a lack of traction that he’s gotten with Microsoft in the past regarding technologies that [...]
The June 1 issue of the New York Times included the 11th installment of their twice-annual Op-ed Puzzle. Sort of a miniature paper-based puzzle hunt, you first solve several themed puzzles, and then roll all of their answers together in one final metapuzzle. The series is produced by the trio of former Games Magazine editors [...]
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 from 2.3.3. It didn’t go nearly as smoothly as I wished. After my first upgrade according to the upgrade instructions, all the site would do is return completely empty pages. I reverted, exported my previous blog contents, created a completely empty new database, and reimported everything here. Now I [...]
I’m happy to see that the forums are still active after the first couple of weeks that this site is in existence. That’s a very good sign. Go visit the forums now if you haven’t in a while: http://www.puzzlehunters.com/forum/ But there’s still a tremendous amount of work to do before we puzzle-people can sleep easy [...]