I once was a blue haired freak

What happens if I …

moar funny pictures

Ice Temple, originally uploaded by Riceman3.

beautiful

I’m just playing around with a new flickr/wordpress plug-in. I found this photo in the process and I felt like sharing it.

I use this site’s URL (http://blog.hooloovoo.net) as my OpenID. One of the cool things about OpenID is that I don’t have to run my own OpenID server to use my own URL, I can delegate a server to do the “heavy lifting” for me. I actually have several identity providers available to me, Vox, MyOpenID, and even AOL, (not that I use my aim screen name much anymore.) I’ve pretty much been using MyOpenID as my delegate. That changed this morning. I have nothing against MyOpenID at all. I think they are a great provider. So why the change? I’m using VeriSign Labs new OpenID service because I can use my PayPal/eBay security key (otherwise known as a VIP Credential) as part of the authentication.

Multi-Factor authentication for the win!

Well, it looks like (my part of) the DNS issues DreamHost is having have been (partially) resolved.

I wonder if it had anything to do with me going into the web panel and adding a new sub-domain. Probably not.

In other news it looks like their off-network status page is still being DDOSed

I’m playing with www.tumblr.com right now. I want to see if I can use it as kind of a “personal aggregator” since it supports the import of various feeds.

I was having trouble with the feed for this site. I’m going to try importing it again and see what happens.

XKCD is a great web comic. I’ve been sent links to individual comics by friends in the past, and I started reading it regularly a couple of months ago. My only regret is that I didn’t start following it sooner. Hooray for archives!

As many people know, my wife and I are big fans of the Harry Potter series. We’ve both been re-reading (and re-listening to) the series in preparation for the upcoming book and movie. Right now, I’ve got Harry Potter on the brain, so when the Del.icio.us Random Page bookmarklet brought me to a neat Newspaper Clippipng Generator this morning, the first thing that popped into my head to write was an article from the Daily Prophet:

My wife is convinced that Harry Potter will die on his birthday, so I took that idea and ran with it. I don’t have any reference material with me right now, (the books are at home,) and I’m too lazy to go searching on teh intarwebs, so some of the names are probably misspelled and/or flat out wrong. I couldn’t remember the name of the “current” minister of magic, so I wrote around that with a lame joke about Fudge.

Let me just say I have no inside knowledge about book seven. I am not connected in any way to J.K. Rowling. I have no idea what is going to happen. I’m just some goofy fan of the books. The clipping you see above is really just me rambling. It’s barely edited, and incomplete. If I get ambitious, I might try re-writing it and making a complete article. I have a couple of other funny (to me) ideas that didn’t fit into the space allowed in the clipping.

Ok - so I suspect that I’m going to get more than a few hits to this post. Welcome one and all. Feel free to post a comment. (Let’s put that spam filter through its paces.) What do you think is going to happen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?

Is that even possible?

Ok, ok. As horrible as I think MySpace is, there are a couple of cool things about it. One of them is the video I just found of “Weird Al” and Seth Green chatting. Check it out.

Artist on Artist: “Weird Al” Yankovic and Seth Green

Add to My Profile | More Videos