I’m back!! After 4 days in Amsterdam I have returned. What a great place. Both Natalya and I really enjoyed our time there. As usual, we tried to cram loads of stuff in to a very tightly packed 4 days. I can safely say that we managed it. Without boring you too much with all the details, below are some of the main places we visited and things we did… Read More »Back from Amsterdam
Next week Natalya (my wife) and I will be going to Amsterdam for a few days without the kids (I’ll miss them but similarly can’t wait). Neither of us have been there before so don’t know the best places to go. I know I can look on the gazillion web sites out there but was hoping for some personal recommendations based on peoples’ first hand experiences. So, if you have… Read More »Amsterdam Holiday next week
A recent post by Rohan Pinto here, made me think of a comment my 5 year old daughter came up with at the weekend. Whilst driving along we passed a house which had concrete covering the bricks. The concrete was painted a rather horrible bright blue colour. My daughter enquired: “Daddy, how does a house made of paint stay up?” You can’t fault her observation and logic!!
Kim Cameron has posted a really good video here explaining how user-centric identity and federation can work together. His blog and associated demonstration is shown using Microsoft CardSpace and Ping Federate from Ping Identity. I have worked with Ping Identity for some time and was happy with the product and how it, and federation works generally. However, like Paul Squires here, I was struggling to see how it fitted within… Read More »User centric identity and federation working together
Rohan Pinto recently blogged here about a new online OS that he had come across, YouOS. Under his recommendation, I had a look as a demo user and must say from a pure ‘technical geek’ point of view I was impressed. From the comments on Rohan’s site, YouOS certainly doesn’t seem to be the first web based OS, although it is the first that I have come across. My main… Read More »YouOS online OS
Last week I came across a web-site called Heartbeat-ID, from a company called Thinsia. Over the past few days I have been discussing it with Roland Sassen of Thinsia to try and establish exactly what Heartbeat-ID gives me. My initial thoughts on looking at the site was that it is yet another URL based user-centric identity system (a la OpenID, LID, i-names etc). However, after speaking with Roland I have… Read More »Heartbeat-ID – is it just a new user-centric ID system?
For those of you who have noticed, I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front recently. Like the rest of the UK, I have had some time off for holidays, but also I have had quite a bit on my mind. I can’t say too much now but I will hopefully elaborate in a later post.
I came across this today: Clarke’s ID Cards Whilst I know it is a bit outdated now, I still found it very funny. Definately worth watching if you haven’t seen it before.
In case you’ve wondered why I haven’t posted anything for a few days, I have been on holiday to visit my sister and her fiance in Surrey. In between entertaining my children at various theme parks, farms and other equally busy venue with my company, I had a chance to play on my sister’s new MAC mini. I have never been a particular fan of macs and have always had… Read More »I want a MAC
Yesterday, while talking to a security expert, he asked me the question: “If you only had one piece of advice to give to a brand new security manager who knew nothing, what would it be?”Other than questioning why the security manager got the job in the first place, I briefly thought about this and responded with: “Educate your users!” My rationale for this response is the well known fact that… Read More »One Piece of Advice