It's News to Me

Today Yahoo acquired del.icio.us. That's news, not just to me, but to you as well, I think. Previously, Yahoo had acquired Flickr, another site that employs tagging as a strategy. I've been using del.icio.us since I started this blog on WordPress.com back at the end of October, and of course, I have been using Flickr as my photo sharing site since back in November of 2004. You can see my del.icio.us tags here. To answer your questions about what del.icio.us is, let me quote this excerpt from the Wikipedia explanation ...

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Philippa Beadle, the Global Footprint Manager for Identum whose encryption product Private Post I discussed yesterday, responded this morning to my further questions with the following summary:

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After some experimentation, Paul and I have been able to exchange encrypted messages using Private Post that I mentioned earlier this morning. While installing it here on my computer, I read the EULA and discovered in it that the software is a 60-day trial version and that after that time there is a license fee for the Pro version but that there is a Lite version that will remain free. Interestingly, I didn't see that anywhere on their website. Because of that I tried to send an email to their support group and got the message from my mail program that the message was not sent because the «destination was not valid in DNS.» That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, I must say. It will be interesting to see what, if anything, Bruce Schneier has to say about it, once he has had a chance to review it. When I see that response, I'll note it here.

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This morning I awoke to find an email from my friend Paul Moor alerting me to a new encryption technology service called Identum. The company makes it's product, called Private Post, available for free. The encryption technology used for this product is the so-called Sakai-Kasahara Identity-Based Encryption (SK-IBE). A highly-technical document called the «Security Proof of Sakai-Kasahara's Identity-Based Encryption Scheme» can be downloaded in this PDF.

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Interesting.

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Few things grate on my nerves more than grammatical errors as glaring as the one in the title to this post of mine. When I see them flowing from the pens of professional writers or hear TV news anchors or sports announcers blurting them out, I am even more appalled because those folks wield so much influence on the national idiom and, to my consternation, on my grandchildren's language skills.

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As is immediately obvious, I suppose, I've changed the template for my blog to a new theme, called Regulus 1 by Ben Gillbanks, that was recently made available to those of us who are using WordPress.com as our hosting site. I like many things about it and have a vew few concerns, not with the template itself, but with the fact that WordPress.com limits the edits that a blogger can make to the site.

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As you may have noticed, I haven't posted much to this blog lately. In part that is due to the fact that Carole is visiting from Georgia and I have been involved in doing some things with her and Mike's family. In part, to be honest, it is due to my laziness. I could have posted more I suppose, but as I've said before, this isn't a job, so I don't feel obligated to post every day.

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