Single Sign-On and OpenID

Posted on May 12, 2012 by
OpenID on SourceForge

This is what OpenID looks like on SourceForge.net!

So now that exams are over, the only thing on my mind now is my paper due on Thursday. Well, that and also OpenID. For those of you who don’t know, OpenID is an open standard for a little thing called Single Sign-On where a single account on one website allows you to log into many websites without having to deal with passwords and whatnot. If that sounds a little fishy, good on you for noticing that. To the untrained eye, it may look like a weakened form of security, but I’ve been playing around with it for a while and decided I’d spend a blog entry talking about why I think it’s actually a pretty cool thing. You disgust me, sir. →

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One Year Later…

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

I FINALLY FINISHED MY EXAMS! *dies* Are you OK? →

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An Observation in Data Mining

Posted on May 6, 2012 by
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My pictures get more dull each day.

I was looking at my stats page the other day, because I love stats. I love looking at the graphs, seeing how my readership grows each month, collecting the flags in my Flag Counter, and seeing what search terms refer people to my blog. I like to see it as a game. Yes, you read that right. You guys are all just achievements to me. How’s that for the most dehumanizing thing I’ve ever written? I’m just joking. Most of my readers are spambots anyway. →

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Making a Teaching Portfolio

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

The Professor’s responsibilities are threefold – research, service, and teaching. While the Curriculum Vitae covers the full breadth of events in the Professor’s professional life, it does not give much insight into the depth of their work, which can make it hard to evaluate them as academic professionals. The teaching portfolio is a carefully-built personal statement of the depth of a Professor’s teaching career, allowing an opportunity for the individual to reflect on their teaching history, incorporating their observations along with supporting evidence into a single work that speaks for their excellence in the classroom. I just finished taking Dr. Barbi Honeycutt’s workshop on building a teaching portfolio, and there were a few things that I wanted to reflect on myself. That’s what your lab notebook is for! →

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Do I Belong in Technology?

Posted on May 2, 2012 by
Old and New

One of these things is not like the others.

I sometimes have to wonder that, despite being all about Computer Science and technology and stuff, I have a tendency to use a wide array of less-sophisticated technology in my daily life. I don’t have a smartphone, meaning I don’t have a digital calendar running my life. I don’t keep my research notes on a fancy wiki. I have good, old-fashioned, DRM-free pen and paper. And even though I can’t run Linux on all of this, I’m actually OK with that. You’re a madman. →

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