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 [...]
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Hey, all, I’ve been meaning to start down the road toward building up a community of all you puzzle people out there, whether you call your puzzle addiction Puzzle Hunt, Mystery Hunt, Treasure Hunt, Games Magazine, or The Game, I’ve set up exactly the site for you: http://www.puzzlehunters.com. Please check it out and give me [...]
March 29, 2008 – 10:08 pm
Following Clickpass‘s lead, there are 3 key scenarios that a Universal OpenID Button needs to enable in order to gain widespread use on the web: 1) new user sign up, 2) existing user sign in, and 3) merge existing Identity 1.0 user with a new or existing OpenID user. Despite the existing best practices for [...]
The great OpenID usability work that Clickpass recently launched and the reactions that followed have induced me to spend some time thinking about what this all means for OpenID. The first conclusion that I reach is that Clickpass-style single-click single sign-on is almost inevitably the future of OpenID–it makes it trivially simple for even the [...]
Microsoft released Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8 during MIX08. They’ve done some exceptional work during the 15+ months since IE7 shipped (passes ACID2 out of the box, implements some neat new JavaScript features, has moved the IE Dev Toolbar developer tools into the browser, and too many other things to list here). My personal [...]
February 20, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Marshall Kirkpatrick’s claim that Vidoop is “a company made up largely of engineers with military backgrounds” makes for a great thriller plot, especially in the context of his National ID discussion over at ReadWriteWeb. That description, however, doesn’t reflect the Vidoop that I know. One of our developers was a civilian researcher at the Naval [...]
February 18, 2008 – 2:59 pm
I have vast amounts of respect for scientists and what they do. They have built an industry that pays them to do fun things like think up new things and argue about the futures of existing things. Interestingly, though, their industry insulates them from some of the pressures that cause non-scientists to do imperfect things [...]