OpenID server software needs to be able to detect when it is being used to proxy an attack on another server.

After a year with the iPhone 3G, I upgraded to the 3GS. The upgrade cost me money and as a result, the original iPhone now belongs to me. Consequently I now “own” 2 iPhones – the original one which is mine outright and the 3GS which is in contract for another 12 months, when it [...]

I was tickled to read in Teaching by Lecture of what N. Whitman calls the four levels of competency. The levels advance thus (my paraphrasing in parenthesis): Unconscious incompetence (you don’t know you can’t do it) Conscious incompetence (you know you can’t do it) Conscious competence (you know how to do it) Unconscious competence (you [...]

Last year’s WordCamp UK was a huge success. Around sixty people turned up to the Birmingham gig with backgrounds as diverse as one might hope for and expect, given that WordPress is used by all kinds of people for all sorts of things: bloggers, developers, hackers, journalists, authors, academics, idealists and dreamers were all there, [...]

It was time for a re-jig. Normal content will return shortly. has returned, albeit with a slightly modified look. Shout if you’re missing anything, anyone. There’s still bits and bobs to do, specifically: switch wp-super-cache back on (it’s tending to give me white-screen-of-death) [DONE] integrate the bb-press and wordpress logins clean up the theme crossover [...]

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