I really want to like OpenID, but the more I find out about it, the more I begin to hope it fails, so that something better can emerge. The idea, as I originally came upon it, appealed: “you already have identities you can prove are yours, in the form of URLs – why not use [...]
A recent blog post from my old friend Phil1 discussed some of the gotchas of parameter passing in object-oriented languages – or I suppose specifically in partially OO languages, since the problem in this case was a combination of objects and structs in C#. It seems to me there is a genuine problem here, beyond [...]
The below is a letter I have just e-mailed to my MP, the Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd, as a response to the recent response from HM Government to a petition regarding the continued use of IE6. I think this is an important issue, and one to which the current response is insufficient.