Right now, I am taking a class on Air Traffic Management (ATM), which is already yielding some very concrete useful knowledge: unbeknown to me, the FAA and NOAA have a lot of very interesting tools on the web. These web…
Today should be “International Freedom Day”, against all suppression of individual liberties, everywhere.
Working currently on an RelaxNG project, I needed to automate conversion of RNG schemas to a W3C compliant schema in NetBeans. The tool I used to perform the transform is Trang. I added this macro to the build.xml file: <macrodef…
This is a happy Friday afternoon rant. I am still following the headlines for Sun (as long as that is still possible), and today I found some interesting headline: “Oracle Should Spin/Sell Sun Hardware Unit, Analyst Says“. Well, interesting enough,…
Trust is one of those concepts in IdM that are hard to define or measure, yet are at the basis of most of our transactions. There are a few different ways to look at trust or capture its essence, including…
Ok, fair enough – I give up: now on Twitter: @beuchelt. Big question: what are people using to keep up with Twitter? Right now I got the MicroBlog plugin for Pidgin, but I am not 100% sure if I like…
When I read Larry Seltzer’s piece on H.R. S 773 IS, I fell into a constant nod about the issues he raised. In addition, I have two more: SEC. 11 (a): Lofty goals, but these seem rather obvious, since they…
The excellent article “Security and Data Sharing” by Mark Richard and Leslie Lebl points to a few very important ramifications that the less than ideal current data sharing situation with the E.U. brings and what the ratification of the horrible…
After my initial irritation about Massachusetts Governor Patrick ideas about creating a state-wide Big Brother register of citizen’s location died down, I just heard this morning about another state ignoring the “right to be left alone”: Oregon is rolling out…
Totally off-topic, but I really feel like communicating this: After 9 years in Massachusetts, I can now proudly claim to be a U.S. citizen! Along with 2717 other condidate, I took my Oath in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston…