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I got back from my trip to Japan just over a week ago and I seem to have finally readjusted to sleeping in Eastern Time again.   While the long vacation was quite nice and I was incredibly excited to be in Japan for the first time in my life, I’m glad to be back to [...]

My identity management work has been keeping me on my toes but since early August, I’ve been planning a trip to Japan.  And that day is drawing closer and closer.  This Sunday, I’m flying out to Vancouver for a couple of days on business and then on September 18, I’m flying to Tokyo.  I’ll be [...]

Wow.  It has been a while since I’ve written here.
I’ve been busy with an identity management project which is transitioning from development to testing.  For this transition, I needed to deploy my work to a test environment which more closely matches what the client is running.  Now, this is a standard Java web application with [...]

There is a story that has been making the rounds on tech sites about Rogers, one of the two major ISPs in Canada (the other, of course, is Bell).  Apparently, they’ve begun hijacking DNS in order to provide a “helpful” search for domain names that don’t resolve…  which is, of course, filled with their advertisements.  [...]

I found a really cool story here.
Turns out that the Fedora Project is rolling out a new system called “Fedora Talk” that allows contributors to sign in using standard VoIP hardware and software to talk to other Fedora contributors.  I think this is a really cool idea and a great application of VoIP technologies.  While [...]