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Things move slowly here at advogato ... Am I really in cyberspace?

Someone (Dave Bauer) has kindly read my diary entry and added a certification. He has certified me as 'master', but I have a feeling that this may have ended up having no effect...

I read the trust metric stuff and now wonder if, given the nature of the traffic on the site, it might be impossible to get proper certs unless you are actually known to the individuals who happen to look at who is coming in.

Maybe if they knew I had a hand in:

The world's biggest omelette!

I was called in as they were going for the record to fix the computer that was supposed to be webcasting but had stopped. I just managed to fix it in time so they were able to broadcast the declaration that they had finished the omelette.

Since I do web stuff and they had not thought to do any type of permanent memorial, I used a company 'shelf site' we had saved for charity to put up the news. You can see it here:

PureWish.com

I have had a pretty good career and some personal luck over the years. I feel a bit sheepish about not having given enough back, but I have given something.

Come to think of it, I wrote a program for these guys to operate a charity auction thing. I should GPL the thing and put it up at PureWish...

Still trying to think of an ethical and polite way to break into the 'trust web' here.

Jiminy Crickets!

I was(am) a Master Programmer and was both the main designer of the Guild's point system for certification and the Code of Ethics

Here's my certificate as a Master Programmer (M.Prog):

MyGuildCert

Here's another bit of GPL'ed code from my 'Crypt' Data Packaging project:

distr.c

I like the idea that there is a certification procedure here, but a little peevish that I have to constantly re-prove myself everywhere I go. Sigh. It's the lot of a programmer -- it's always 'what have you done lately'...

I hope that anyone reading this will check my credentials and certify me ASAP

I came here, because I would like to comment on the electronic voting article. People there are saying that there is no way to provide a Convenient, Secure, Auditable, Private and Transparent electronic voting system. At least as far as Canada is concerned, I beg to differ. We present a scheme here: HushVote Security Overview