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Welcome Gary Olson!

Blogging
Author: Mark Dixon
Thursday, January 24, 2008
1:45 pm

Please join me in welcoming Gary Olson to the blogsphere. Gary, who was recently name as US Software Practice Sales Director, launched his blog, “One Team … One Fight” today with an inspiring tribute to one of his colleagues who is retiring from 25 years of service in the US Air Force.

May I share the final paragraph of Gary’s post:

So, as you end or start your day, two requests:

  1. Please say a prayer or raise a glass to the thousands of men and women who sit guard today as my friend did for 25 years serving our country, selfless and with great resolve.
  2. As the next sun rises or sets, commit to yourself, to your family, to your team…that today YOU are going to MAKE IT HAPPEN!

ONE Team…ONE Fight!

Thanks, Gary, for your passionate leadership!

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Testing Ecto

Blogging
Author: Mark Dixon
Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:40 pm

EctoScott Fehrman recommended that I check out the Ecto blogging editor.  So … here is my second blog of the day using something other than the old standby Bloggar client I have used for a couple of years.  So far, things seem to work ok, but inserting images is a bit cumbersome.  I had to edit some HTML to put get placement, borders and spacing correct.

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Testing Scribefire Blog Editor

Blogging
Author: Mark Dixon
Thursday, January 24, 2008
11:00 am

Quite a while ago, I tested the Performancing blog editor plugin for Firefox.  This plugin is now called ScribeFire.   It seems to work well within the Flock browser.

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SSOCircle Federating to Google Apps

Identity
Author: Mark Dixon
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
6:27 pm

As my colleague Pat Patterson reported earlier today, we are holed up in a windowless conference room in the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas for the FAMFest 2008 event. There is immense brain power in this room!

During a few minutes of downtime, Pat showed me the good work done by SSOCircle in leveraging OpenSSO to establish federated linkages to a wide variety of service providers. To test the system, I established an SSOCircle account and linked directly to the suite of Google apps as “mgd@ssocircle.com.” OpenSSO handled all the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

I verified that I could send and receive email as “mgd@ssocircle.com” via Google email and link my ssocircle.com calendar to my personal Google calendar. Great little demonstration of the power of federation to provide SSO to multiple SaaS applications.

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JavaOne Registration is Open!

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Author: Mark Dixon
Thursday, January 10, 2008
5:33 pm

Where will you be during the first week of May? Come join the Java Community for the 13th annual JavaOne conference, at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Registration is now open!

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Avoiding Crossword Puzzle Ego Erosion

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Author: Mark Dixon
Saturday, January 5, 2008
1:56 pm

I enjoy sitting down at the kitchen table each Saturday morning to solve the Sudoku and Crossword puzzles in the the East Valley Tribune newspaper. These puzzles may not be as challenging as their counterparts in the New York Times, but the level is just right for me.

Today, while trying to get un-stuck over a few words in the crossword puzzle, I found a great little tool on the Internet, the Allwords.com crossword solver. For crossword purists, using this is probably heresy, but it helped me get over the hump on the words “scallop” and “plight.”

It was also timely to discover the Allwords.com Word of the Week: “Erode generally refers to the process of erosion and the wearing down of mountains and other natural formations. Worse is an erosion of your confidence or self esteem.”

Just think, because of Allwords.com, my self esteem didn’t erode due to crossword puzzle failure!

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One tiny red dot in Mongolia

Blogging
Author: Mark Dixon
Friday, January 4, 2008
11:32 am

I added the Visitor Locations widget from ClustrMaps to this blog on December 8th. It is fun to see the cumulative proliferation of red dots aross the world, particularly when I visit the expanded view. My favorite is the red dot in Mongolia, where my son Eric lived the past two years. We thought at first that he was responsible for the red dot in Mongolia, but he came back to the states in November, berfore I added the widget. I wonder who my elusive Mongolian visitor could be?

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Liberty Alliance Full-Matrix SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing Results

Identity
Author: Mark Dixon
Friday, January 4, 2008
11:03 am

On December 18th, The Liberty Alliance Announced the First Companies to Pass Full-Matrix SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing. I was delighted today to see the report card that showed Sun passing every functional test. Congratulations to the Sun Federation and Access Manager team for a job well done!

You can click on the image or here to see a full-size table.

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Sir Isaac Newton – on the Shoulders of Giants

General
Author: Mark Dixon
Thursday, January 3, 2008
10:33 am

My daughter Holly gave me a calendar for Christmas that offers a bit of sage advice each day. Today’s quotation from Sir Isaac Newton is as germane today as it was during his life 300 years ago: “If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”

What humility and gratitude from a man of such gigantic intellect and pivotal contribution to the world! We today are all beneficiaries of giants like Newton and others, on whose visionary shoulders we stand.

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RFID Passports

Identity
Author: Mark Dixon
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
7:46 pm

It was announced last week that “passport cards that Americans can use to travel to other nearby countries will have a technology that allows information on the card to be read from a distance.” Doesn’t it make you feel warmy, fuzzy and safe that your Identity can be read without your permission by anyone within 20 feet? I think I’d rather stand in line a bit longer.

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