Whoops

Posted by Trejkaz Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:54:00 GMT

I just switched ISPs (Internode now suck, $200/month is just unacceptable for only 90GB/month downloads.)

That would have gone smoothly, but FreeDNS have added this annoying feature where they require confirmation by email in order to detect inactive accounts. And where do they send this email? Guess where… the domain managed by their DNS server. So that mail is currently going into the void until they let me login.

The really funny thing is that by the time anyone reads this, the problem must have already been fixed. :-)

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Furniture Purge

Posted by Trejkaz Mon, 21 May 2007 07:12:00 GMT

Turns out we don’t have to move house which is good, but I’m still going to go ahead with getting rid of excess furniture and whitegoods, just to make the place seem a little more tidy again.

The thought of putting it all on eBay seems like too much trouble so I figured I might as well put something up here in case anyone wants to steal some of it before it goes to a second hand store and/or the dump.

Obviously it will have to be pickup so anyone not living in the Sydney area can disregard this message. :-)

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Mii

Posted by Trejkaz Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:45:00 GMT

I guess I haven’t posted since the Wii post back in December. That’s because the Wii is so good that I’ve been too busy playing games on it to make any weblog posts.

…

…

That was a lie.

What really happened was a certain kind of earth-shattering event after which I wasn’t in the mood to post anything on any sites for a month or so. I swore to myself I wouldn’t post anything about it (as I really dislike drama) and it felt wrong to post anything else in that time.

Anyway after one month straight, non-posting became a kind of anti-habit.

In a way it’s a shame to break that streak with such a content-less post as this, but I really have nothing else to say except that I might be posting again when I can think of something coherent.

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Trackback Spam Sucks

Posted by Trejkaz Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:49:00 GMT

I’m in the middle of deleting about 80-90 pages of trackback spam.

It’s funny, though. The whole point of trackbacks is to provide a simple way to automate sites linking back to sites which link to them. But as soon as you make this automatic it makes spamming the site really easy.

I wonder if people will eventually come up with a way around that.

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Back Home

Posted by Trejkaz Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:31:00 GMT

I know I haven’t posted all the holiday entries yet but I thought I’d mention (for those of you who might be wondering) that I’m back in Sydney as of Tuesday morning. I was supposed to be back Saturday morning but there were a few fun issues getting home which I’ve already written up in entries which need further checking and editing.

The remaining holiday entries will probably be finished at a rate of one per day until I reach the group of more recent ones which have already been written or until the weekend is reached, whichever comes first. And once I finally have those out of the way, I can start looking at the photos.

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Some Blog Catch-up

Posted by Trejkaz Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:09:00 GMT

This new hotel (Shibuya Excel Hotel Tokyu) has high speed Internet (around 9 megabits when I tested it just now) so I can finally put some time into updating. I won’t put everything up at once though, just a bit to get things going.

I have started to wonder how much this net access is costing me. If it turns out that it’s part of the price of the hotel, then maybe I will get to watch some anime on this trip anyway (because I’ll be damned if I’ve ever seen any on TV so far.)

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Gorn

Posted by Trejkaz Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:36:00 GMT

Out of the country for a couple of weeks. I don’t know if I’ll get time to post here during that time but we’ll see.

See you all in a couple of weeks.

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Syndicated over on LiveJournal

Posted by Trejkaz Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:11:00 GMT

I used my recently-created OpenID to log into LiveJournal and create an “external user” account over there. LiveJournal even let external users add friends, which is pretty nifty although not quite ideal (mainly because the friends list is stored on their end and not my end. XFN would probably be more interesting if everyone used it.)

One of the limitations of external users is that even if they have a blog, that blog isn’t made visible to people who add them as friends.

And so…

[info]glittalogik has done the deed, and created a syndicated feed of this blog over on LiveJournal. Now LiveJournal users can just add this feed and see all the posts I make here.

Here is the feed’s profile page so any of you on LiveJournal can add me.

Thanks!

Of course, the remaining problem is that comments on these entries will end up going to LiveJournal instead of here, but I’ll just have to live with that I suppose.

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The "Consistent Identity Project"

Posted by Trejkaz Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:51:00 GMT

Those of you who know me from Jabber-related projects will probably have noticed that I dumped everyone from my main roster and moved you all to my newer, “official business” Jabber ID. I’ve also been routinely moving all semi-work-related mail to the respective email address.

I guess now people will be able to cope with my mail address and Jabber ID as the new ones are much easier to remember. :-)

Next I want to move my Jabber-related software projects over to my other domain, but that’s going to take a little time because I’ll have to tinker with the source files and copyright notices too. No fun… I wonder if there is some way that I can omit copyright notices and have Subversion add them automatically when the files are checked out. That would be grand.

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OpenID is Just Too Easy

Posted by Trejkaz Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:47:00 GMT

First, I should add a little background for people not already in the know.

OpenID is a decentralised identity system, the general idea being that different sites can authenticate with each other, so that as a user, you need only ever login to a single web site. It has been designed to keep things simple, at least from the user’s point of view. Although a lot of clever cryptography happens under the hood, the user is never exposed to it (although concerned users can certainly go and read the specs if they are worried about how it’s implemented.

The protocol was created by Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal fame, and indeed, LiveJournal was the first major service to support the protocol.

Whereas protocols such as Passel may be more flexible by supporting proof of identity using multiple means – whether it be email, instant messaging, or whatever – OpenID has the immediate benefit of being implementable today, without modifying the web browser itself.

A while back, there was mention on the Typo mailing list that someone was adding support for users to authenticate using OpenID when leaving comments on the weblog. There was also some talk about how awesome it would be if Typo could also act as an OpenID server in its own right. It would mean that every separate deployment of Typo would have its own OpenID service built-in – this is the sort of true decentralisation which OpenID was designed to permit.

But instead of waiting until the code ended up in Typo, I was actually considering setting up my own OpenID service. If I put it on some sensibly-chosen URL, it may even turn out to be the same as the URL Typo came up with. One such URL might be http://trypticon.org/users/trejkaz, which might also serve as a page showing the user’s profile and contact information – it may even list articles written by that user. If I were to set up a server, then as Typo weblogs started rolling out support for OpenID commenting, I would be able to use the feature on other people’s blogs without having to wait for the server to be implemented in Typo itself (a much more complex task, or so I’m led to believe.)

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bit difficult to set one up because when I went looking, there was no simple, ready-to-use OpenID server that I could find bundled up in a friendly fashion. But the good news is, I discovered that you can achieve the same sort of effect with much less work, and all you have to do is sacrifice some of the decentralised nature of the service.

I’ll present my guide to getting this working as a tutorial in three steps. It’s much easier than you might imagine.

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