Danger! Mental dumping ground ahead! Like loads of other IT people in the UK, I’ve been pretty worried about the forthcoming compulsory centralised ID database in the UK. I’ve previously written to my MP, joined ORG and tried to spre...

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Oktay Altunergil has written an article called Company-Wide Instant Messaging with Jabberd which explains some of the benefits and pitfalls of, and alternatives to, rolling out a Jabber server in the workplace and covers some of the more practical stuff like what kind of hardw...

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I know how involved Edd Dumbill is in the FOAF community, but I’d never taken the time out to read the FOAF section of his website. I’m glad I finally did; his three tutorials: Adding people into the FOAF web,

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<thinking-out-loud> I’m slightly confused. When entering the details of your friends in the Foaf-a-matic2, you can enter either their email address in the mbox field, or an SHA’d value. But then what happens if you have “hide email addresses” selected? ...

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