Recent blog entries for colin

Yay! I've been certified on advogato as `apprentice' by someone who ``Over the past several years [has] created a number of icons for the GNOME project and created many themes (including the infamous E-X and GTK-X themes).''

I'm an apprentice icon-maker. I can't wait to tell mum.

Apparently I'm not certified. Oh well.

Interesting article about distributed trust, in which someone poses the question of how to operate a distributed trust matrix in a context of uncertain identity.

I suspect that the solution to the problem of trust in ``a single statement which many people want to evaluate the truth of, but there is no single authority on.'' subsumes the case in which the single statement is `X is the same person as Y', or should.