tobyaw: (Filmgold)

EV

posted by [personal profile] tobyaw at 05:17pm on 01/12/2009 under , , ,
When the Thawte Web of Trust and personal email certificates were discontinued last month, they offered me a free SSL certificate to “express their gratitude and sincere appreciation” of an “elite” member of the community. Who am I to say no to a freebie?

I applied for a two-year SSL EV certificate for my company web site. The certificate allows the use of an https: URL, and displays the company name in green in modern web browsers’ address bars. I learned a little about setting up Apache with SSL (surprisingly easy), and was amused at how straightforward the extended validation (EV) procedure was — a bit of form filling, signing and returning a contract, adding the company to scoot.co.uk so they could look up my mobile number, and then a short telephone call which consisted of me saying “yes” repeatedly to confirm details.

So now I have an expensive certificate on a website that is devoid of content. Go me.

(After writing this post, I recalled that for Mac gamers of a certain generation ‘EV’ means Escape Velocity. I spent too long in the late ’90s playing that.)
location: KY16 8JY
tobyaw: (Default)

EV

posted by [personal profile] tobyaw at 05:17pm on 01/12/2009 under , , ,
When the Thawte Web of Trust and personal email certificates were discontinued last month, they offered me a free SSL certificate to “express their gratitude and sincere appreciation” of an “elite” member of the community. Who am I to say no to a freebie?

I applied for a two-year SSL EV certificate for my company web site. The certificate allows the use of an https: URL, and displays the company name in green in modern web browsers’ address bars. I learned a little about setting up Apache with SSL (surprisingly easy), and was amused at how straightforward the extended validation (EV) procedure was — a bit of form filling, signing and returning a contract, adding the company to scoot.co.uk so they could look up my mobile number, and then a short telephone call which consisted of me saying “yes” repeatedly to confirm details.

So now I have an expensive certificate on a website that is devoid of content. Go me.

(After writing this post, I recalled that for Mac gamers of a certain generation ‘EV’ means Escape Velocity. I spent too long in the late ’90s playing that.)

This entry was originally posted at http://tobyaw.dreamwidth.org/167522.html.
location: KY16 8JY
tobyaw: (Christmas)
For Beth, the beginning of December means a daily chocolate from her advent calendar. For me, it means Christmas music. I rather like Christmas music as a genre, and have always started playing Christmas music on the first of December.

Now with the benefit of Spotify, I have a much wider selection available. What joy! I’ve been having fun finding interesting Christmassy oddities to listen to. But early results of my careful research suggest that the finest Christmas album ever is Twisted Sister’s A Twisted Christmas. [personal profile] kateaw will grow truly sick of this album before the Christmas season is over.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3cnt14zhsnARMtk5wo7V46
location: KY16 8JY
tobyaw: (Default)
For Beth, the beginning of December means a daily chocolate from her advent calendar. For me, it means Christmas music. I rather like Christmas music as a genre, and have always started playing Christmas music on the first of December.

Now with the benefit of Spotify, I have a much wider selection available. What joy! I’ve been having fun finding interesting Christmassy oddities to listen to. But early results of my careful research suggest that the finest Christmas album ever is Twisted Sister’s A Twisted Christmas. [info - personal] kateaw will grow truly sick of this album before the Christmas season is over.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3cnt14zhsnARMtk5wo7V46

This entry was originally posted at http://tobyaw.dreamwidth.org/167848.html.
location: KY16 8JY

Links

July

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
        1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9 10
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
17
 
18
 
19
 
20
 
21
 
22
 
23
 
24
 
25
 
26
 
27
 
28
 
29
 
30
 
31