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Wednesday, 7th February 2007

Microsoft & OpenID. HUGE news. Microsoft are officially supporting OpenID, through integration with CardSpace.

# 1:56 am / cardspace, microsoft, openid

CardSpace & OpenID: Working together. A more detailed explanation of what the Microsoft OpenID collaboration actually means.

# 1:58 am / cardspace, microsoft, openid, scott-kveton

Thoughts on Music. Steve Jobs comes out against DRM, lays the blame squarely on the big four music companies.

# 2:25 am / apple, drm, steve-jobs

If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store.

Steve Jobs

# 2:26 am / apple, drm, steve-jobs

Useless Account. “Change your password 1000 times a day... For Free!”

# 1:29 pm / funny, uselessaccount

TurboGears and Pylons (a technical comparison). Ian Bicking explores the differences between the two, and finds that the most significant is probably CherryPy v.s. Paste.

# 1:51 pm / cherrypy, paste, pylons, python, turbogears

method_missing: best saved for last. My least favourite thing about Ruby is the cultural tendency towards introducing weird new bugs in other people’s code.

# 2:16 pm / methodmissing, ruby