So I'm 21 in a few hours, this is the first time in my life I feel like I'm getting old. Guess I still have 25 to look forward to when car insurance becomes cheaper. If you're in town, you're invited to join for dinner and drinks tomorrow night. Not sure where we're going, but I think a group will leave from Six Apart for dinner so let me know if you want to join and I'll make sure to let you know where we end up. Could also follow my Twitter and find out that way.

Lots of cool coverage of VeriSign's OpenID Provider around security this week and an Information Week article about OpenID:
- Security Now podcast - PIP & More Perfect Passwords
- More on VeriSign PIP OpenID
- Update of Personal Identity Provider (PIP) from VeriSign
- Paypal + Verisign PiP Token

Working to re-factor the graph code I've been working on. Goal is to have some pretty cool stuff to show at the DataSharingSummit this Friday/Saturday!

Good weekend with BBQ at scsi's yesterday and then general relaxing today with my roommate unpacking his stuff which includes a handmade clay FireFox logo and Tux painting. My new Roomba 560 arrived today which is totally awesome!

The past year and a half has been amazing! Not only have I grown by leaps and bounds, but have been an integral part of a team at VeriSign who put out an awesome product last month. Along the way I've met and worked with great people and this year worked for Gary Krall who is a truly amazing manager! I've grown as a presenter and evangelist from OSCON 2006 to OSCON this year where Simon Willison and I gave a three-hour OpenID Bootcamp tutorial. The OpenID community has grown and flourished from under 20-million OpenIDs and 320 sites accepting OpenID when I joined VeriSign to now over 120-million (including every AOL user) OpenIDs and almost 5,000 sites. The OpenID Authentication 2.0 specification has matured and extensions have been developed to add functionality upon OpenID in many ways. VeriSign has made great contributions such as the ability to describe stronger authentication mechanisms within an OpenID flow. Most recently I was recognized by Google and O'Reilly as the recipient of a 2007 Open Source Award for my efforts with OpenID and am the youngest recipient in the history of the award. None of these things would have been possible without the support, flexibility, and encouragement of VeriSign, my colleagues, and managers.

One of my growing interests this year has been taking the ever increasing infrastructure which is provided by OpenID and building really cool things on top of it. Now that I've helped to shape the latest VeriSign Labs PIP release, this is a good time for me to move on and follow this passion of building new things only now enabled by OpenID. The VeriSign Labs team is on a great path and I look forward to continue seeing amazing new things coming from them. This certainly is not a desire to become less involved in the OpenID community, though traveling as much as I have has grown a bit tiresome. :)

brad started thinking a lot about social network portability earlier this year and it is an extremely interesting topic to me as well. Brad describes his thoughts, which I helped him pull together and edit, as well as some goals he has to see this happen. While Brad has definitely earned his own change of pace after nine years of working on LiveJournal, it's a credit to Six Apart that all of his work on social network portability was incubated there. Combining this with all of their great open infrastructure which "powers Web 2.0" and Movable Type 4 incorporating OpenID and becoming Open Source, Six Apart certainly has made the right moves to be a leader in this space. So I'm excited to say that I'll be joining them later this month as their Open Platforms Tech Lead to help make it a reality.

So more overtime, but I'll be at BarCampBlock (along with Brad) this weekend if you're interested in discussing this further!

I've done just about nothing today; it has been nice. Woke up at like 2pm and then played PS2 for the bulk of the day. Took my bike to the shop brad likes yesterday, hoping to get that back this week since it would have been an awesome day to ride today.

So since moving into my new place I've had no TV, I've physically had one though had no antenna. Due to contracts, AT&T is the only provider of voice, internet, and tv in the building. Finally got internet a week or so ago, it is fiber direct to the apartment, though was pissed at the exclusivity clause in the contract and didn't order tv.

wcu's roommate was telling whitaker and I yesterday about HDTV antennas and that they actually work. So I picked up one from Terk this morning and have tv. It is now balanced atop my tv, where I found optimal reception, and works unless the freezer door is open as it is between the antenna and the window.

Now to do something about a DVR as my ReplayTV doesn't have a HD tuner.

I have said recently how I hate technology?

Back home after being in Portland for four days for my cousin's wedding.  Finally have working internet at home now, so spent the day catching up on work/life email.  Woke up early to take my car in for service around Hyde and O'Farrel, walked home, dealt with getting internet, walked back, drove car home.  Early flight in the morning, watching Fight Club though ready to pass out.  whitaker, we should go scuba diving this weekend.

So Sri Lanka was awesome, need to post pictures though keep forgetting. Really enjoyed being a part of the first ApacheCon Asia and hope to participate in it again next year.

This week I'm at the Digital Identity World conference, speaking tomorrow on a panel along with brad and others on URL based identity.  At the Identity Open Space today, currently in a session on OSIS.

In a few weeks I'll be at the ApacheCon US Hackathon for two days in Austin, though won't be able to stay for the actual conference.

The week after that I'm speaking at the 2006 DC PHP Conference about digital identity more in general than just OpenID.

First week in November I'm then presenting the paper OpenID 2.0: A Platform for User-Centric Identity Management along with Drummond Reed at the ACM CCS2006 Workshop on Digital Identity Management.

So busy, busy, busy.  Flights are looking like:

Got an apartment, moving tomorrow with the help of the wonderful dina, jproulx, and scsi and niftybitch. Get the keys in like two hours, working on packing now. Then next step will be actually finding a roommate...more on that later.

Floorplan:

Guess who I just met with five others from ApacheCon

On my way back to SFO, flight is in about an hour and a half.  Was totally dope staying with rustnroses and folk, so much cooler than just in a random hotel.  Currently sitting in the United Red Carpet club, using overpriced T-Mobile wireless, eating cheese, and drinking free booze.  Good start to a 11 hour flight!

Going to be in Portland next weekend, some work though mainly for brad and dina's wedding.  Then a few days of fishing with my uncle.  Will also be back the last week of July and free over the weekend.  Wanted to have a bunch of us go down to the beach, but our house is rented then.  :-\

Don't take a two hour nap when you're hungry, it is just long enough to start dreaming and you'll dream about eating a sandwich. You'll then wake up to find your left arm covered in slobber since you've been chewing on it as the sandwich in your dream.

I'm exhausted, been at the Internet Identity Workshop at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Was a fucking awesome space to have a conference, though didn't get a chance to actually look at the exhibits.

Interesting stuff going on with DIX which started out as Sxip 2.0 as an IETF effort, though really changed a good deal lately. They're now talking about using Yadis for service discovery, the Sxip 2.0 authentication (which is loosely based upon OpenID and then enhanced a good deal), and then they're talking about using a very light-weight SAML profile for profile exchange. It all sounds good, though I'm reserving full judgement until I see the actual spec which makes these changes. A little worried about how light they actually can make SAML, though think Dick and John are sincerely doing everything they can to make this all work.

Need to register for a motorcycle class with hachi. Still want to get one since an hour commute sucks. Figure I'll move somewhere like Sunnyvale at some point. Maybe split a place with jproulx and iseebi if they stick around in the area. So many dope houses for not a lot of money down there!

Feels like I should write something about ads on LJ, but I think a lot of other people have already said what I'd say. I understand the reasoning for the Sponsored+ level and I think people want to do cool innovative things, but that we fell short of that for the initial release. So hopefully they will improve the level in the future and actually give free users a real reason to switch to it with an innovative experience that they can't get anywhere else on the web. In the meantime, it is interesting to read no_lj_ads. Also hoping that they follow up on the "whoops" from Brad about the TOS change.

TV now, sleep tonight, paper tomorrow, maybe Guitar Hero with brad and crucially Friday night, boat dive with whitaker on Sunday, and then work on Monday! Woot!

So I guess its all finalized, signed the paper yesterday, and am no longer an employee of Six Apart. Been almost three years since I started working for Brad as a senior in high school. Been a really interesting few years, learned a good deal, met a lot of awesome people, and had a great time. Decided it is however time to move on for an opportunity where I'll be able to learn a good deal of new stuff and I'm overdue for a change of pace.

Taking next week off, attending the Internet Identity Workshop next Monday through Wednesday. Then figure two days of chillaxin' before I start at VeriSign the following Monday. The job is in Mountain View on working for their Advanced Products and Research Group within their Information Services group that handles .com/.net registration, real time publishing, digital brand management services, and intelligent supply chain. Is a small group, paired with a strategy team, that thinks 1-3 years in the future and is described as the feeling of a startup with the resources of a 5000+ person company. Works only on prototypes and I'll get to do a wide variety of things. Also get about 25% travel for business development, partnerships, and implementations. A bit of sys admin work is also thrown in the mix for their "labs" network. Should allow me to learn about all sorts of different things, have fun, and see what it is like working for a large company. So I'm excited!

Went to technopatra's party last night at her place with Joey and Henry. Had a good time, and then Joey and I went over to Berkeley to meet up with Artur and Mischa and join a Werewolf game. Good games and I managed to stay in until the end in both games that I played, lost the first time as a villager though one the second as a Werewolf with Mischa. Got home, slept, and now a BBQ this afternoon!

Went to the Maker Faire this morning with brad and crucially. Six Apart had a booth there put together by the awesome ljkrissy. People were playing SegWay polo which was pretty dope and we hung out with Jacob Applebaum (ioerror) for a bit. The sixaphone was there, though rebranded as the makerphone. All in all fun times were had!

Played a few hours of Guitar Hero with revmischa last night that helped take my mind off of other stuff. Life has been exhausting, rewarding, stressful, and tiresome this past week so a good weekend of not doing anything has been nice thus far.

I need to do laundry!

Exhausted, long day and will be another tomorrow.

Was bored, so bought a domain name and made myself a simple website. Go go late night geekery!
http://www.davidrecordon.com/