Now this is an interesting bit of wildness....
When would you want to re-activate the tag?
Information Architecture > Service Oriented Architectures > New Ontario RFID guidelines emphasize "consumer consent"
Consumer consent must be obtained before personal information linked to a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is collected, used and disclosed, according a new set of guidelines issued by Ontario's Information and Privacy Commission (IPC).The guidelines also recommend automatic deactivation of the tags at the point of sale. Consumers should be able to choose to re-activate the tags at a later date, repurpose them, or otherwise have control over the manner in which tags interact with RFID readers.
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Since i've agreed to the wedding, i've been practicing and playing and reading... and practicing.
And I simply love this photo. Of course, the horizon shouldn't be in the middle, but pffft - the colours!!!
:-)
So - i've got almost 2 months under my belt at the new gig - and i'm ready to look around and see what sorts of fun i can stir up…. sure, it's one thing to encourage web cams and IM, another thing to figure out how to increase collaboration amongst a team who is extraordinarily geographically diverse. Did I mention the team is also fiercely independent? It makes for a great team, but it also makes for a VERY BIG VACUUM.
I need a tool that allows folks to keep each other up to speed on what we are working up, and also to share information, documents and diagrams. I am waiting for Foldera, because nothing else seems right. I'm worried that Foldera may be TOO much, and have too many whistles, and scare the ream away with arguements of cumbersome-ness and distractions… we shall see.
After spending a weekend in the country, the drive back to the city saw the beginnings of sniffles and stuffed up nose… I thought it was just the smog - after all, i could barely see the skyline, the soup was so very thick…
I popped a reactine before bed, but woke this morning to the strangest cold like symptoms, scratchy throat and cotton head. But nothing else… I don’t get it… it sort of reminds me of a cold - but i can breathe (sort of), and my throat is better, if only feeling thick. The problem is, I haven’t had a cold in about 7 years…. really really. Drives the Wiz insane…
I don’t think this is a cold, i think it’s from the smog, and it feels ugly.
Update on 2006-06-20 14:12 by jules
Great news - methinks it was the smog… and nothing more ;-)
YAY - i didn’t ruin my long standing cold-free record.
Man, smog is bad.
The past few days have been chock full of adventures. Adventures into the Ontario Medical Industry. On wednesday, the wiz came down with a crippling headache, and worried that his recent hockey head injury had suddenly taken a decidedly turn for the worst, we bustled on down to the energency room at Toronto General Hospital.
We arrived! And after 40 minutes, we were able to register, and talk with a nurse, who promply gave the wiz a wheelchair to convalesce in. 2 hours later, we were wheeled into “Exam room 11”, which was to become the wiz’s home for the next 24 hours. There were tests aplenty. The wiz has an uncanny ability to do well on tests without studying, so this was a piece of cake… EKGs, blood, getting his Cats scanned… and then waiting for results. And waiting. And little bits of walking around for me, but more laying down and waiting for the wiz. Wild words were bandied about, leaks, blood, brains and guts. At one point we were able to peek through a chart:
Me: Hey! You’ve got a sub-arracchnid hemmorage - I think that means you’re a spider.
The Wiz: I thought it meant I was a peanut.
The MRI folks were able to open the lab early for the wiz, so at midnight, we were rolled through the bowels of the hospital to the MRI suites. MRIs make ALOT of noise. I was convinced the terrible sounds coming from behind the door “where visitors cannot go”, were a result of me sneaking my blackberry into a wing with a very BIG MAGNET. Luckily - no - the MRI just makes those sounds naturally ;-)
It wasn’t till the wee hours of the morning that we were able to get the goods from the neosurgeon (i tell you, no more brain surgery jokes for us) and all turned out well - and his haircut won’t be an issue. Stay tuned, as i post jpegs of the wiz’s brain. It’s larger than you might think. You know what they say about fellows with big brains. Big ball caps.
… canyou hear it…. wooossshhhttt!
It’s been 6 weeks since i started at the new gig, and there are only 1480 odd hours before we move. It feels like eons, and it feels like yesterday, for everything. Thre are times when i can wake up in the morning, and it seems like i’ve lived in the current tower with the wizard forever, and then i can blink, and still be surprised about where i am, who i’m with and all the interesting things that are still happening.
Wow, it’s like a continual time warp experiment. Time goes fast in your 30s… how fast can it go when you are in your 60s?
I’ve got mail from:
- Millicent Pineda
- Thurman Larsen
- Ava Russo
- Shuracov
- Cherokee Shelby
- Archie Brittingham
- Johnny Pierson
- Leonel Villegas
… just to name a few. All spammers, the crumby lot of them. But I wonder, were they ever real people? Are they still? Do they know they are being exploited by spammers?
:-)
… did you ever wonder where the spammer names come from?
I just googled one - good old Johnny Pierson lives in Irvin, Texas.
Folks have been linking the 2 conversations - IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) and Net Neutrality for a few months now....
IP Democracy
IMS: Designing the Non-Neutral Smart Network
Courtesy of David Isenberg, author of "Rise of the Stupid Network," I stumbled upon some interesting comments on IMS (which might be described as "Quest for the Smart Network") by John Waclawsky. Waclawsky is a member of the Mobile Wireless Group at Cisco Systems involved with standards activities, product requirements and architectures.
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The Wizard and I regularly debate the value of blogs. He's of the mind that blogs are at the epoch of the their popularity, and that there will be a vast majority of the population who will never engage in the activity. Moreover, he is convinced that blogs will ultimately die a slow death, and are simply a flash in the pan. He may be right. Sort of.
There is a generation who will never find the on-line bug. The bug that encourages you to try out new technologies, to invest in on-line applications, to immerse yourself in the greater atmosphere of the internet. Folks who won't use Skype, or IM or wireless. Folks who simply are grounded in web 1.0
That being said, there is the next generation, the newbies who are podcasting, and IM'ing with their phones, and setting up MySpace sites. The people who ARE sharing music, who are making maps of the best pubs in chicago. People who are attending conferences and live chats. My gut says that these are the people who are going to run the world some day.
A lynchpin in discussions between the Wiz and I is the debate of using your blog as your resume. Or, at very least, having your URL on your resume. He is adament that the day will never come. His peers are likeminded. Me, well, now that my indentity has evolved, and my online presence is gelling, I have a feeling that my next resume will indeed have my url. It's all about audience. And it's all about identity.
Finally people are starting to realize, with the internet, as with everything in life, you have to accurately portray yourself, or face the consequences.
What do you think - would you put your blog URL in your resume?
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé - New York Times
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a RésuméBy ALAN FINDERWhen a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois.At Facebook, a popular social networking site, the executive found the candidate's Web page with this description of his interests: "smokin' blunts" (cigars hollowed out and stuffed with marijuana), shooting people and obsessive sex, all described in vivid slang.It did not matter that the student was clearly posturing. He was done."A lot of it makes me think, what kind of judgment does this person have?" said the company's president, Brad Karsh. "Why are you allowing this to be viewed publicly, effectively, or semipublicly?"
Technorati Tags: blogs, resumes, blog future
Technorati Tags: blogs, resumes, blog future
The Wizard and I regularly debate the value of blogs. He's of the mind that blogs are at the epoch of the their popularity, and that there will be a vast majority of the population who will never engage in the activity. Moreover, he is convinced that blogs will ultimately die a slow death, and are simply a flash in the pan. He may be right. Sort of.
There is a generation who will never find the on-line bug. The bug that encourages you to try out new technologies, to invest in on-line applications, to immerse yourself in the greater atmosphere of the internet. Folks who won't use Skype, or IM or wireless. Folks who simply are grounded in web 1.0
That being said, there is the next generation, the newbies who are podcasting, and IM'ing with their phones, and setting up MySpace sites. The people who ARE sharing music, who are making maps of the best pubs in chicago. People who are attending conferences and live chats. My gut says that these are the people who are going to run the world some day.
A lynchpin in discussions between the Wiz and I is the debate of using your blog as your resume. Or, at very least, having your URL on your resume. He is adament that the day will never come. His peers are likeminded. Me, well, now that my indentity has evolved, and my online presence is gelling, I have a feeling that my next resume will indeed have my url. It's all about audience. And it's all about identity.
Finally people are starting to realize, with the internet, as with everything in life, you have to accurately portray yourself, or face the consequences.
What do you think - would you put your blog URL in your resume?
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé - New York Times For Some, Online Persona Undermines a RésuméBy ALAN FINDERWhen a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois.At Facebook, a popular social networking site, the executive found the candidate's Web page with this description of his interests: "smokin' blunts" (cigars hollowed out and stuffed with marijuana), shooting people and obsessive sex, all described in vivid slang.It did not matter that the student was clearly posturing. He was done."A lot of it makes me think, what kind of judgment does this person have?" said the company's president, Brad Karsh. "Why are you allowing this to be viewed publicly, effectively, or semipublicly?"
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I can have an unlimted diatribe of things to blog about.... and yet, i come across this, and the fellow manages to hit things spot in. You will like it. I still tease people i drive with on the 401 between milton and mississauga to "keep back 2 Chevrons". After commuting that stretch for 4 years, it's burned into my brain like fireworks.
Things That Make Me Angry Chevrons and Hidden Driveway SignsWe've all seen the sign "Watch your distance, keep 2 chevrons apart." Why can't they just double the distance between the chevrons and ask drivers to keep one chevron apart? We could cut our chevron budget in half. It's almost as stupid as "Hidden Driveway" signs. Couldn't the sign just say "Driveway"?
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yeesh..... the flock updates are coming fast and furious - and the blogging bugs are changing hourly methinks.
technorati tags:flock, blog, bugs
Blogged with Flock
… you know what i mean, when they suddenly go quiet. Like: All is Quiet on the Blogging front? Like: when you find a blog that you love, and then suddenly, one day, the music stops? And still you wait, wonder if the blog master will return, not wanting to have to unsubscribe to the rss feed, hoping upon hope that you are being too hasty…
Meh, i hate it when bloggers burn out. Especially when they are a joy to read. Pfft. Now that's 2 i've lost. Like losing a good friend, I say.
I think the little baby jesus is giggling right now.... as a lonely IT chick, it's flattering and such a good sign that this sort of conversation is finally happening....
Information Architecture > Messaging and Collaboration > Speaking Venusion - strategies for marketing technology to women
Is there such a thing as a gender-based approach to marketing technology products? Many marketing strategists believe this is indeed the case. When it comes to tech marketing approaches, they say, "what's sauce for the goose may not be sauce for the gander." That was a recurring motif at a recent conference on "Marketing to Women" held in April in Toronto. One of the high-profile speakers at the conference was Tony Rossi, director of sales and marketing at Epson Canada Ltd. Today, in this "Voices" exclusive, Rossi shares some of his insights on this topic with IT World Canada's Web editor Joaquim P. Menezes. He discusses why "marketing to women" is such a hot topic today - and one that tech companies can only ignore at their peril.
Technorati Tags: women, marketing, IT, venusion
Ahh - googled the meaning of the page rank....
Google Technology
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
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Shame on me for thinking that the coolness of the early evening would translate well into a good morning..... so i convinced myself that it would be a little slice of heaven, to sleep with the windows open. Something evil happened in the wee hours before dawn. Something that should never happen to a farm gurl
(tm)
Allergies. With a vengance. Called for a dedicated application of reactine, unfortunately, it wasn't the non-drowsy kind. Now i can't operate heavy machinery. Damn, and I was thinking of breaking out the back-hoe today.
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