DeWitt Clinton

OpenID is a protocol that allows for the decentralized sharing of identity information. OpenID rocks and the web will be a better place as more people adopt it and the extensions that will follow.
The technically inclined may want to take a look at the OpenID specifications. The specs are clear and [...]

I just now realized that I don’t want my Blackberry any longer. I’m not exactly sure why not. I think it has something to do with dependency issues. I carry it around everywhere and check it incessantly. Sure the Blackberry is useful on occasion, but it is present all the time.
Can [...]

I have been hard at work try to get Unto.net to output a valid Atom 1.0 feed.
Wordpress 2.0 does not natively support Atom 1.0. Fortunately, there is a patch that can be applied to wp-atom.php to get you most of the way there. There were a few other changes I had to [...]

Three days later and I have made only a small amount of progress writing a prototype for the little machine.
The first setback was a minor power blackout in my neighborhood. It was not even remotely as fun as the three-day blackout we had a few years ago in NYC. But it [...]

I spent the bulk of the past two weekends trying to migrate the contents of Unto.net’s WordPress blog into an installation of the MediaWiki wiki software.
For the most part I succeeded. Not that it was trivial. In order to migrate I had to do the following:

Export all of the old blog entries to a [...]