1. Initial OVD 11g Screencasts  permalink

Blogs.oracle.com

The first video shows a very brief introduction to Oracle Directory Services Manager connecting to OVD 11g. The second video shows how to create a very common scenario - aggregating 2 different LDAP directories into a single view.

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2. Childbirth In Shackles  permalink

Childbirth In Shackles
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

This happened in Phoenix: Pregnant Latina Says She Was Forced to Give Birth in Shackles . Alma Chacón feared her baby would arrive early. Her nightmare had started with a traffic stop a day earlier. She'd been weeping since. "What if the baby is born here, in the jail?" she thought. In the afternoon, she was shackled and transported to ...

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Childbirth In Shackles Pregnant Latina Says She Was Forced to Give Birth in Shackles After One of Arpaio’s Deputies Racially Profiled Her   —  Alma Chacón feared her baby would arrive early. Her nightmare had started with a traffic stop a day earlier. She'd been weeping since. "What if the baby is born here, in the jail?" she thought.

3. DLP – A Real Solution for the Public Sector  permalink

Community.ca.com

The Ponemon Institute recently conducted and published a study surrounding 10 security trends and opinions of them according to IT leaders in the U.S. Federal government. (The study was commissioned by CA and you can access the report here.) Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions are relevant to much of what's revealed in the report.

4. Switch On Head  permalink

Switch On Head
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

Believe it or not, Dominic Wilcox wore an on/off switch on his head for almost a month: Switch . "The switch was worn day and night for close to a month. I remember after leaving the place where it was done I had to overtake some people on the path. I knew they would see it, so that was a big moment, then after that I relaxed a little. I went ...

5. Bart’s Blackboard  permalink

Bart’s Blackboard
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

An archive of Bart Simpson's blackboard writings . These are images, not just text. For example, Season 1, Episode 2: It's a work in progress. Right now, only six seasons are up. Comments | Posted in Movies & TV

6. New Gig!  permalink

New Gig!
Eternallyoptimistic.com

I am now officially a Senior Technical Architect at Ping Identity.   All of you who know the Ping folks know that this will be an exhilarating ride.  I work for Patrick Harding in the Office of the CTO, and I can honestly say that this is one crazy learning curve!

7. Senators press EU to speed its Oracle-Sun probe  permalink

Finance.yahoo.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company.

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8. Wave Energy Generator Pumps Power to Scotland  permalink

Wave Energy Generator Pumps Power to Scotland
Hhopper / Dvorak Uncensored

Wave energy got a boost with the connection of the Oyster hydro-electric device to the electricity grid in Scotland last Friday. Aquamarine Power activated the connection of the Oyster in the waters off Orkney, marking one of the few ocean power devices to be producing electricity.

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Jcwinnie / After Gutenberg
Wave Energy Generator Pumps Power to Scotland Energy Efficiency plus Renewable Energy Better Choices than More Nuclear Power   —  There's that special glow about the Capitol when it is Chernobyl Zombie Season.

9. Mobile - Connectivity & Context Convergence  permalink

Mobile - Connectivity & Context Convergence
Identity-centric-architecture.blogspot.com

I am once again delighted to be giving a Keynote on "Mobile - Connectivity & Context Convergence" at MISC 2010 in London, covering the topic of Context Convergence (Attribute Aggregation) from a Mobile Operator perspective. As Wireless operators such as Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and Telus Mobility are investing in high speed ...

10. Kindle Improvements  permalink

Kindle Improvements
Walkenbach / The J-Walk Blog

This is welcome news: Kindle Update Boosts Battery Life, Adds PDF Support . Amazon has boosted the battery life of its Kindle e-reader and added native support for PDF documents, and you don't even have to buy new hardware to get the benefits. The retailer says it made the battery improvements through a firmware upgrade that took six months to ...

11. New line of greeting cards  permalink

New line of greeting cards
Connectid.blogspot.com

Kids can be cruel. I really miss that.

12. Given that Google already has all this info  permalink

Given that Google already has all this info
Connectid.blogspot.com

Kids can be cruel. I really miss that.

13. Web Velocity Update  permalink

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits

If you downloaded the Windows build of Web Velocity 1.0 , you might have run into a problem whereby the personal repository wasn't set up properly. That's been fixed in the latest build for Windows - if you've had this problem, just download it now . If you need help getting started, try the video library on the Web Velocity site. Technorati Tags:

14. Brits arresting people solely to get their DNA on the suspects database  permalink

Brits arresting people solely to get their DNA on the suspects database
Eideard / Dvorak Uncensored

Police officers are now routinely arresting people in order to add their DNA sample to the national police database, an inquiry alleged… The human genetics commission report, Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?, says the national DNA database for England and Wales is already the largest in the world, at 5 million profiles and growing, yet has ...

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Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims   —  Police officers are now routinely arresting people in order to add their DNA sample to the national police database, an inquiry will allege tomorrow. The review of the national DNA database by the government's human genetics commission also raises the possibility that the DNA profiles of three-quarters of young black males, aged 18 to 35, are now ...

15. The Long Slog of Content Updating  permalink

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits

Sometimes you end up painting yourself into a corner you're not entirely happy with. Take the old version of all the "Smalltalk Daily" web pages - until a week or so ago, they were all just lists of links. Fairly dull, and just not terribly compelling looking. I updated them to use images (small screencaps) from the videos themselves, ...

16. Microsoft turning the LDAP directory into a Graph Database?  permalink

Microsoft turning the LDAP directory into a Graph Database?
Netmesh.info

Just finished watching Kim Cameron’s talk at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. A bit of a surprise that talk of WS-* has largely disappeared in favor of much about REST.

17. Apple ads dodge the network coverage issues  permalink

Apple ads dodge the network coverage issues
The PC Doctor / The PC Doctor

Posted @Hardware 2.0: According to the folks at Engadget, Apple will tonight roll out two new ads that counter Verizon’s attack on the iPhone and the AT&T network it is bound to. ...

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The PC Doctor / The PC Doctor
Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?   —  Posted @Hardware 2.0: Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, talks about the App Store approval process. But is the process too cumbersome, tedious and does Apple take too much responsibility for the content of apps? ...

18. Airlines: Wall Street Execs Not Only Ones Raking In The Bucks  permalink

Airlines: Wall Street Execs Not Only Ones Raking In The Bucks
Uncle Dave / Dvorak Uncensored

So this is why they needed the $20 fee per checked bag and pilot’s salaries were slashed. In 2008, while the 5 remaining legacy airlines lost a cumulative $4.6 billion (excludes special charges), the 25 top executives collectively received over $90 million in compensation , averaging over $3.6 million per executive. The legacy airlines are:

19. Toronto police use Taser on wayward deer  permalink

Toronto police use Taser on wayward deer
John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored

CBC News – Toronto – Toronto police use Taser on wayward deer . A wayward deer that wandered through downtown Toronto before stopping to rest near a busy intersection has been stunned and captured. They could have let the deer go on its merry way, but noooo. Found by Robb Murray.

20. Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers  permalink

The PC Doctor / The PC Doctor

Posted @Hardware 2.0: A US law firm is keen to hear from Xbox gamers recently banned from Microsoft Xbox Live. ...