I like OpenID and use it wherever I can in preference to having to remember yet another stupid password. I was just prompted to move from del.icio.us to Ma.gnolia precisely because the redesigned delicious refused to stick my login into my keychain. Ma.gnolia supports OpenID as well as other goodies such as Microformats. Shame about delicious, I joined them June 2004 but kudos for providing such an easy migration path. Where I currently wouldn’t use ...

Twitter Bio: I never reveal my sources. I always give attribution. I never use absolutes. I am never conflicted. vanity |ˈvanətē| noun: excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements the quality of being worthless or futile : the vanity of human wishes demanding |diˈmandi ng| verb: ask authoritatively or brusquely required to work hard, to meet high standards As someone who has put too many photos on Flickr, made the odd ...

Roy is on something of a crusade, pushing back on many publishers of HTTP interfaces who claim to be RESTful. I particularly like the latest: REST APIs Must be Hypertext Driven. Unfortunately the Word of Roy may be a little too divine for comprehension by many sinners, so at the risk of invoking the wrath of the posse, I’ll try and simplify. If you insist on using the word “REST” in association with your API, ...

Following on from The Web is Agreement, The URI Is The Thing is an attempt to explain the value of REST, in particular to the poor lost beleaguered souls sentenced to work in middleware hell. There are several few visual allusions, that is I copied a lot of stuff including: Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Martin Wells Knapp, as well as the covers of Cosmographical Glasses and The Hobbit. For more influences, see my Scrapbook. I ...