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When somebody writes a wordpress plugin for it you just know a technology is becoming mainstream Alan did the good work of writing a plugin that allows people to login to your weblog with openid accounts. I wondered what would happen to users that already had accounts so i asked Alen to which his clear reply was; they can choose or more precisely:

The plugin takes the place of the Wordpress Account Registration step. So, once a user registers with WPOpenID, they /are/ the wordpress user (for example) http-user-example.com. The only difference between this new user, and the user admin, that the OpenID users don’t have passwords set, and thus can’t login with the Username/Password combination.

However, there is nothing stopping an OpenID user from logging in, then visiting their profile, and changing their password to something else. If they do that, then the OpenID user can login with Username/Password as well.

In addition, if a normal wordpress user (for example, ‘admin’) wants to login with OpenID as well, they can visit My Profile => Your OpenID Identities (/wp-admin/users.php?page=your-openid-identities or /wp-admin/profile.php?page=your-openid-identities, depending on whether logged in as an admin), and add OpenID identities to the account. Afterward, the user can login with any/all of the identities listed, or their original username/password.

It is intended that there NOT be two separate accounts, one Username/password and the other OpenID. If that situation is created, there’s currently no easy method to merge them.

…which means i know a lot of blogs which will start implementing this little gem soon.

Since i moved this blog to wordpress somewhere in 2003 i never had gotten around to adding titles to all the old posts so one could actually click on them in wordpress. Thus this wealth of ancient history has been lost to all for quite some time, horrible! Today i installed a little plugin that lists each and ever post by month and year which was a good excuse to write a little script that cleaned up all the old posts and add titles and post-slugs, behold; Ancient History. Beware though, the page might take a while to load. Eat that Google

Did somebody forget to tell me it’s spam friday today? My comment and mail filters are churning overtime today… Bloody pill peddlers.

Logging into my electronic banking account today i noticed a press release stating that ABN AMRO now also has an online presence in Second Life. Weirdness. Is the bank desperate to be aknowledged as an online player, hip with the times?

SL seems to be more popular in the manager crowd than it is among actual people or, more fittingly, customers. When Sun announced Java was open sourced in SL they could host 60 people max in their virtual conference center, when dutch candidates for the elections flyered in SL about 10 people attended.

Lots of organisations do not seem to understand that the maximum exposure they will get on a given day in SL is very limited since the virtual space, like real space, is just that; a (3D) space with (virtual) boundaries. Unless you build a giant arena not many people can attend. Unless you build a giant arena that offers more than a bit of eye candy not many people -will- attend. And if they do you quickly run into the technical limitations of the SL servers and software.

Don’t get me wrong i think SL is a very interesting environment and phenomenon but the ease with which organisations are throwing dollars at the it makes me wonder if anyone calculated the ROI such online presences deliver compared to a good website. I guess one can always use a good excuse for a press release though…

Het amerikaanse RFID paspoort was al gekraakt, en vrijdag werd bekend dat ook het engelse RFID paspoort eraan heeft moeten geloven. Was ik toch niet helemaal paranoia door nog net voor de invoering van het nederlandse RFID paspoort een chiploos exemplaar te halen wellicht.

Pretty damn neat! They just won a 25.000 euro grand so i guess they might actually get the hardware to keep supporting this sort of data live. When you are tracking someone on this site it almost does not feel real…

The daily link post think was a bit of a mess so for that you’ll have to check the delicious feed from now on. I’ll just stick to the regular (though not very frequent) posting schedule. And yes, James i’ll fix the blog to post the full blog post instead of the excerpt soon.

p.s. the daily linkdump will still be available through my RSS feed though…

update: full posts are shown on the homepage now, i must admit this is way better.

At RoomWareDevHouse we intend to investigate possible applications, host discussion and do some hacking while enjoying a tasty beverage. The event is free and anyone interested can attend as long as you intend to participate.

Loosely styled after SuperHappyDevHouse we hope to talk about and even build some of the applications that we will display at a later RoomWare event. Furthermore we intend to start development on an open source RoomWare platform that anyone can build on to provide RoomWare applications at their own event or location.

The event is on Upcoming too…

update: meer op BlueAce en Katie’s vlog.