Cookies, HTTPs and OpenId

I finally got around to looking at the various notices that have accumulated on the admin pages for this blog.  As a result:

• This blog is supposed to display a notice regarding cookies if you access it from the EU.  I'm not sure that this notice is actually appearing when it should (I've sent feedback to try to clarify), but as far as I can tell blogspot is handling cookies for this blog just like any other.  I have not tried to explicitly change that behavior.
• I've turned on "redirect to https".  This means that if you try to access this blog via http://, it will be automatically changed to https://.  This shouldn't make any difference.  On the one hand, https has been around for many years and all browsers I know of handle it just fine.  On the other hand, this is a public blog, so there's no sensitive private information here.  It might maybe make a difference if you have to do some sort of login to leave comments, but I doubt it.
• Blogger no longer supports OpenID.  I think this would only matter if I'd set up "trust these web sites" under the OpenId settings, but I didn't.

In other words, this should all be a whole lot of nothing, but I thought I'd let people know.

Because "The Web" just wasn't a broad enough topic ...

Well, the title pretty much says it.

After 500 or so posts of Field Notes on the Web, I've decided to relax and stretch out a bit. As I said at the time, Field Notes isn't going away, but the self-imposed ten-post-a-month quota has, leaving more time free for other pursuits such as ... um ... blogging.

Since the whole point of the exercise is to relax a bit, there will be no quota here and the topic will be whatever I feel like at the moment. In other words, it'll be a more or less bog-standard blog.

That said, I expect to stick to non-fiction, particularly commentaries, half-baked analyses and random speculations, roughly on the order of Field Notes but not about the web (if it is about the web, it'll end up on the original blog, of course). I also hope to keep to topics on which there isn't an obvious surplus of opinion in the blogosphere. Better to be a big fish, or perhaps more aptly the only fish, in a small pond.

If you're still with me after all that, welcome aboard! We may not get very far very fast, but I hope at least it'll be a pleasant excursion.