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google squared - some (not so) artificial intelligence

2009-06-07T22:40:00.004+02:00

Google squared seems to be the answer to wolfram alpha. The difference is, that for google squared the content ist searched from the internet automatically. This can be very nice and sometimes even perfect. However almost every time you try something you will start laughing. Making it obvious that we are still miles away from something that could be called "semantic web".For example try to square

Identity bus - yet another authentication abstraction layer?

2009-05-20T15:01:00.010+02:00

At EIC there was a very interesting panel discussion regarding an „Identity bus“ idea and how to concretisize it (http://www.id-conf.com/sessions/562). I just want to pick some small parts and write about some of the thoughts I catched from the discussion and what came to my mind afterwards. First: there are some different

European Identity Conference

2009-05-10T21:39:00.002+02:00

Being a speaker presenting the (comparatively small) SAP IDM implementation at my employer I have been staying at the EIC 2009 for two days.Very interesting tracks and talks! Some buzzwords: SAML 2, Identity bus (I am going to write a comprehensive post about this one soon), strong authentication, GRC (wich one could say to be "strong authorization").The main problem is still to make

another high quality weekend

2008-06-15T21:51:00.004+02:00

Let me take a huge jump from IdentityCamp Bremen to another event that was high quality, but completely different: I am talking about the "schweizer Gesangfest 2008" in Weinfelden. I haven been there on Friday Juni 13, with the male choir of our village (Männerchor Dittingen). For our presentation we got the highest possible rating ("vorzüglich"). This was really a surprise.But the most

IdentityCampBremen outcomes

2008-06-08T21:50:00.007+02:00

First of all: thank you Ralf & co. for organizing this fantastic event! Many new thoughts and ideas are continuosly jumping around in my head!All the web2.0 IDM stuff is still very much under development.Because I was the only one contributing something about shibboleth, I had some very interesting discussions. For example about interoperability between CardSpace and shibboleth (but did not know

IdentityCamp Bremen

2008-06-04T09:33:00.004+02:00

Hurra ich fahre wirklich hin!http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/IdentityCampBremenBeim SWITCHaai Opcom-Meeting letze Woche hab ich auch davon gesprochen, das Resultat war folgende Fussnote im Opcom-Newseltter:A hint for an event on Identity and Privacy next week in Germany as provided by Tobias Marquart UniBAS:http://www.barcamp.org/IdentityCampBremenBTW: 'bar' in the context of 'barcamp' has nothing to

joomla backup and restore struggle with joomlapack

2008-02-22T23:19:00.003+01:00

Today I tried to transfer a joomla (joomla 1.0.15) site from one (hosted) server to another. I used joomlapack.Below are all the necessary steps that worked for me. Both of the sites are safe_mode=onIt is more a note for myself then anything else...0) get the latest patches / update files from joomla and ftp them to your (old) joomla installationhttp://joomlacode.org/1) get the newest joomlapack

don't tell me...

2008-01-29T09:09:00.001+01:00

that all these trails are from ordinary air traffic. I took the pictures a minute ago.What do you think? Just yesterday the planes started trailing that way, forming a grid. I counted about 40 different trails.You may not believe in the chemtrails thing (google it, if you like!),but there is something in the air, isn't it?

Hi there, no videos today.

2008-01-23T15:48:00.001+01:00

"We had to disable the feature for a little while, because of somesecurity concerns. Our brightest engineers are rattling their wrenchesto make things all right and bring the beloved videos back. Soon. Sorryabout this. We still love you."This is what Skype is telling you today when you try to add a video to yourprofile.Isn't that a nice message??You didn't know that Skype is loving you, right?

china, just one click away

2007-12-10T14:33:00.001+01:00

Can you imagine there is a software that is used by over 24 millionpeople and you don't know it? I couldn't.But today I needed to install qq.QQ is an instant messaging softwarethat is used by almost all Chinese people that have access to a computer. It seems to be very likely to ICQ. There is also a nice wikipedia article about it.The website http://www.qq.com is only available in Chinese. But

20 seconds delay...

2007-12-07T08:39:00.001+01:00

Today I got the nice job to bring the children to the kindergarten. But our bus was about 20 seconds to late and so we missed the train. And had to wait about 30minutes. So I made this post because I was bored... You can watch the bad quality of the digital zoom of my Nokia 6267 (btw. the phone that is on the billboard

Some concurrency...

2007-12-06T06:34:00.001+01:00

Its just the second day for the white box. But the blue one already seems to give up...

commuter views: evening at the mainstation

2007-12-03T14:10:00.001+01:00

Here you can see one of the first mms-shots with my new Nokia 6267!It's not a digicam picture, however one can get an impression of whatshould be shown.It's a very nice phone btw. Low SAR (0.34), nice email and mp3 features.I like it a lot.