<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068</id><updated>2009-12-11T12:01:10.272-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Blog that Nobody Read</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allentom.com/atom.xml'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-7897211801611975882</id><published>2009-12-11T11:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T11:48:03.202-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Another year, another election</title><content type='html'>Although I blog occasionally on the &lt;a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog"&gt;Yahoo Developer Network blog&lt;/a&gt;, it looks like I only blog on my own personal site when I'm running for OpenID Board. It's that time of year, and I'm running for &lt;a href="http://openid.net/2009/11/11/community-board-member-election-announcement/"&gt;OpenID Board again&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the past year, I've contributed quite a bit to OpenID, specifically:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;OpenID &lt;a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/09/yahoo_openid_hybrid.html"&gt;User Interface Extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;OpenID &lt;a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/09/yahoo_openid_hybrid.html"&gt;OAuth Hybrid Extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/05/oauth_update_3.html"&gt;OAuth 1.0A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hosted the &lt;a href="http://openid.eventbrite.com/"&gt;OpenID Summit&lt;/a&gt; at Yahoo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/09/openid_opengovernment.html"&gt;Supported Open Government&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;And I'm a frequent contributor to the OpenID public mailing lists, and I'm always available at public events including the Internet Identity Workshop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I enjoy working on OpenID, and I'd appreciate the community's support for my re-election to the OpenID Board.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-7897211801611975882?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/7897211801611975882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=7897211801611975882' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/7897211801611975882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/7897211801611975882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2009/12/another-year-another-election.html' title='Another year, another election'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-6603908005831237863</id><published>2008-12-10T14:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T16:28:46.967-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Allen Tom for OpenID Board!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thesocialweb.tv/blog/2008/10/episode-15-on-l.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 279px;" src="http://allentom.com/uploaded_images/atom_open-783976.PNG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;OpenID is the foundation for distributed identity, and I'm proud to be working with the OpenID community, and also behind the scenes at Yahoo, to make the vision of OpenID a reality. Unlike previous attempts at centralized internet identity, OpenID is not owned or controlled by anyone, but is developed transparently and in the Open.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm OpenID's #1 fan at Yahoo, and I'm running for an OpenID Foundation community board seat. Having a board seat will help give me more credibility when I pitch OpenID to Yahoo's engineers and decision makers.  I personally believe that users own their data, and should be empowered to grant informed consent to share their data.  Vote for me, and I'll be happy to be the OpenID Community's represenative inside Yahoo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To vote for me, please join the&lt;a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/elections"&gt; OpenID Foundation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-6603908005831237863?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/6603908005831237863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=6603908005831237863' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/6603908005831237863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/6603908005831237863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2008/12/allen-tom-for-openid-board.html' title='Allen Tom for OpenID Board!'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-8133463037899240714</id><published>2008-02-09T15:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T15:16:34.258-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Geek Awesome Dream Girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://xkcd.com/240/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.allentom.com/uploaded_images/xkcd_dreamgirl-769246.PNG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a dream that I met a girl in a dying world...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was a geeky hipster girl, who said "awesome" a lot, and was really into social networking sites and &lt;a href="http://xkcd.com"&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-8133463037899240714?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/8133463037899240714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=8133463037899240714' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/8133463037899240714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/8133463037899240714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2008/02/geek-awesome-dream-girl.html' title='Geek Awesome Dream Girl'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-676936879453838643</id><published>2008-01-31T00:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T00:36:36.926-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Me on YDN Theater</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogpics/2231799029/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2112/2231799029_b1df84d338_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogpics/2231799029/"&gt;allentomdude on YDN Theater&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dogpics/"&gt;allentomdude&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I tried to remember to sit up straight, to not mumble, and to not spaz. I could use some public speaking lessons... Jeremy makes it look easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/01/experts_work_allen_tom_technical_yahoo.html"&gt;Watch my video here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-676936879453838643?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/676936879453838643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=676936879453838643' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/676936879453838643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/676936879453838643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2008/01/me-on-ydn-theater.html' title='Me on YDN Theater'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-3905002097066629586</id><published>2008-01-12T12:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-12T12:33:00.385-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Waiting in line at the Apple Store</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogpics/329835970/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/329835970_740b321750_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogpics/329835970/"&gt;Thanks Yahoo Developer Network!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dogpics/"&gt;allentomdude&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I have no idea what's being released next week at MacWorld, but I'm already camped out in front of the Apple Store. All I know is that I want to be first in line to buy it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-3905002097066629586?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/3905002097066629586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=3905002097066629586' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/3905002097066629586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/3905002097066629586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2008/01/waiting-in-line-at-apple-store.html' title='Waiting in line at the Apple Store'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-3017572779593682450</id><published>2007-11-30T11:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T11:22:46.066-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blade Runner, The Final Cut</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubmedia/2062398922/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/2062398922_7067195386_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubmedia/2062398922/"&gt;Blade Runner, The Final Cut&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/hubmedia/"&gt;Andy Field (Hubmedia)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Blade Runner is simply the finest movie ever made, and The Final Cut edition is &lt;a href=http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/304852/&gt; premiering tonight in SF&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-3017572779593682450?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/3017572779593682450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=3017572779593682450' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/3017572779593682450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/3017572779593682450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2007/11/blade-runner-final-cut.html' title='Blade Runner, The Final Cut'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-1403814925477393549</id><published>2007-11-21T22:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-21T22:50:03.135-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I love my bike</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogpics/1019704209/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1302/1019704209_b25b3accd8_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogpics/1019704209/"&gt;SE Lager&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dogpics/"&gt;allentomdude&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I've had El Toro for a few months, and I still love her. I used to think that single speed bikes were silly, until I actually tried one on a whim at the bike shop. Single speeds are so much fun, I never want to have to shift gears again!&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-1403814925477393549?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/1403814925477393549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=1403814925477393549' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/1403814925477393549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/1403814925477393549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2007/11/i-love-my-bike.html' title='I love my bike'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441792625810453068.post-8713748769462428820</id><published>2007-11-21T17:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-21T17:35:19.102-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello world</title><content type='html'>This is a blog that nobody ever read!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3441792625810453068-8713748769462428820?l=allentom.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/8713748769462428820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3441792625810453068&amp;postID=8713748769462428820' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/8713748769462428820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3441792625810453068/posts/default/8713748769462428820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allentom.com/2007/11/hello-world.html' title='Hello world'/><author><name>AllenTomDude</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03817921208105519357</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17689571543869514824'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry></feed>