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neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the
future. ” – Euripides
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IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travelers
“To
describe more failures than one lone blogger could possibly investigate
himself, here’s a new type of post: the IT failures roundup. I’ll
periodically report on interesting failures using a brief, overview
format.”
http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=943&tag=nl.e539
[ Call
me twisted, but I thought this was a great post by Michael Krigsman @ zdnet. ]
Technology that's green from the roots up
“Many
manufacturers are now giving heightened consideration to how their products
affect the environment. As a result, they're building more products that
require fewer resources to make and less power to run, contain less toxic
material, and are a snap to refurbish or recycle.”
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=322154
Google’s Knol
Take a
look at Google’s take on Wikipedia – Knol.
Book Recommendation
The Logical Thinking Process by H. William Dettmer
This
book is Dettmer’s continued work on explaining Goldratt’s Thinking
Processes (TP). He sets for a methodical approach to help the reader
understand this powerful set of tools. Included with the book is a
licensed copy of the Transformation Logic Tree software for Windows.
IT Audit / Internal Audit / Compliance
Deloitte Poll Sees Litigation Data Panic
“The
survey showed that nearly 40 percent of respondents believed that the amount of
data that is electronically stored for use in case of lawsuits has reached that
unwieldy level. What's more, 17.5 percent said their companies are not ready to
handle complex discovery requests.”
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11875637?f=alerts
IT Process Improvement / Quality Management
Archived Webinar: Implementing a
There
are many social and real-world cost benefits when data centers can operate in a
more environmentally friendly manner. With concerns over budgets and global
warming, now is the time to address these issues. This webcast will cover a
number of technical topics for energy savings in the data center. Topics
include: virtualization, design of the cooling system, device power, and so on.
Access
to this webcast and others is at: http://www.spaffordconsulting.com/webinars.html
Energy costs and data center complexity creating 'perfect
storm,' says Avocent exec
“Soaring
energy costs and the complexity of managing virtualization have changed the
data center game and require IT to develop new management strategies.”
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1323735,00.html#
Security and Risk Management
Bioterrorism's Threat Persists As Top Security Risk
“It
is cheap to do. It is easy to pull off. It is tough to respond to. And for all
of those reasons, it remains one of the top concerns of security officials
across the country, and one of their greatest frustrations.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121781124869708811.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Another
point in the article is that with all the work that has been done in biotech it
will continue to get easier to create an attack. This stands with other
observed situations that were coalesced into what people term
“Spafford’s Adoption Rule” - For
just about any technology, be it an operating system, application or network,
when a sufficient level of adoption is reached, that technology then becomes a
threat vector.
Black Hat Talk on Apple Encryption Flaw Pulled
“A
security researcher who was set to speak at the Black Hat hacker convention in
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/black_hat_talk_on_apple_encryp_1.html
This Bug Man Is a
“George
Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security
software firms sick.”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/150465?from=rss
Healthcare / Bio-Informatics / Care Delivery Organizations
(CDOs)
Storing the Data Deluge
“If
two trillion filing cabinets—or one billion terabytes—sounds like
too much data to deal with, brace yourself. According to industry experts,
health care data is increasing at such a rapid rate that by 2010, medical
centers will need to be equipped to hold this massive volume of
information.”
http://www.digitalhcp.com/2008/07/29/data-storage.html
Human Error / Safety / Environment
Old ships' logs show temporary global warming in 1730s
“This,
Wheeler believes, shows that widespread rises in temperature of the kind
recorded lately can be caused naturally. He thinks that human-caused carbon
emissions are contributing to climate change now, but says it is unwise to link
human emissions to specific events unless evidence is very strong.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/ships_log_climate_change/
Blunt answers about risks of global warming
“…as
chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pachauri has an
urgent message for world leaders about the perils of global warming. He talked
to the Tribune recently while he was in town to meet with Mayor Richard Daley
and Chicago civic leaders.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-poi-pachauri_thinkaug03,0,6989806.story
Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline
“The
faceless marauders are stinging children blithely bathing on summer vacations,
forcing beaches to close and clogging fishing nets. But while jellyfish
invasions are a nuisance to tourists and a hardship to fishermen, for
scientists they are a source of more profound alarm, a signal of the declining
health of the world’s oceans.”
Death in the
“The
mechanisms that create the dead zone are entirely natural — algae feeding
and dying — but there is nothing natural about the zone itself. It is
almost entirely an artifact of modern agriculture, accompanied by treated and
untreated sewage and industrial runoff.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/opinion/04mon4.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Global News / Business / Economics
“The
Brazilian government has authorized the company, Electronuclear, to go back to
work on the nation's third nuclear power plant. Work on the Angra 3
reactor, near
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/31/brazil.nuclear/index.html
Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization
“Many
economists argue that globalization will not shift into reverse even if oil
prices continue their rising trend. But many see evidence that companies
looking to keep prices low will have to move some production closer to
consumers.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/business/worldbusiness/03global.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
US News / Business / Economics
Big Dog
“BigDog is the alpha male of
the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs,
and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a
gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are articulated
like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and
recycle energy from one step to the next.”
http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog
[ They have a video on this page
showing a Big Dog unit moving around and going through tests. It’s
amazing! ]
Bye bye baggage claim
“The
skyrocketing price of fuel has already made it costly to fly, but now getting
your luggage on board is pricier too, causing some travelers to consider
sending it separately.”
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/30/pf/luggage_delivery/index.htm?cnn=yes
Wal-Mart puts the squeeze on food costs
“With
gas, grain, and dairy prices exploding, you'd think the biggest seller of corn
flakes and Cocoa Puffs would be getting hit by rising food costs. But Wal-Mart
has temporarily rolled back prices on hundreds of food items by as much as 30%
this year. How? By pressuring vendors to take costs out of the supply
chain.”
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/28/magazines/fortune/kapner_walmart.fortune/index.htm
Worst inflation in
27 years trumps tax rebates
“Nominal spending grew 0.6% on
the month, but the increase was all due to higher prices, which spiked 0.8% --
the most for any month since 1981.”
IBM Aims for the Clouds with New
“IBM
today has announced to big projects for its cloud computing initiative. First
and foremost, the latest addition to the company's Project Big Green is an
estimated $360 million green data center in
http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2008/08/01/ibm-cloud-green-data-center
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