Train In A Flash - Employee Flu Prevention Training

Train In A Flash has released a very practical and effective employee training video that in a short 4 minutes provides employees with your corporate guidelines for managing through the much discussed N1H1 (swine flu) pandemic or containing the spread of diseases at the office in general.

The neat thing is that it allows you to provide a browser based pre-built training video customized with your own call centre or employee assistance contact data on your Intranet, Portal or run as a screen saver.

In addition, Train In a Flash also provides customizable training videos on Privacy, Malware Defence, Business Continuance and more for under $1,000 each.

Check it out or contact us for more details.

New Idea for Multi-Factor Authentication - PassWindow

Patrick in our office shot me the link to this really novel and innovative method of inexpensively providing multi-factor authentication or one-time passwords. The PassWindow product provides a personal card that acts like a "secret decoder" ring by allowing the holder of the card to see a one-time password for use on websites, credit cards and any other application that needs to protect from keyloggers, dictionary attacks etc.

Check it out, should be a snap to integrate with Oracle Access Manager (OAM) or Sun's Access Manager products. I'd be very interested in hearing others views on this solution.

Apollo 11 - Relive the Dream

It is really cool all the efforts going into celebrating the anniversary of mankind's journey to the moon. The website: Wechoosethemoon.org provides a wonderful re-play of the full Apollo Mission which is a great way to relive the excitement and anticipation and stress of the times.

It brings back wonderful memories and helps us remember that we as a people can aspire to perform great acts of courage when we place our collective minds and energies behind a vision.

Congratulations to the thousands and thousands of people who teamed together to bring about this great achievement.

Sun Virtual Box 3.0 - Updated

Just saw that there is an upgraded version of Sun's Virtual Box 3.0.2. You check out the latest bug fixes and the following enhancements:

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
• Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual)
• Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

at: Virtual Box 3.0 Change Site

On the Identity Trail

An excellent interview by CBC's Anna Maria Tremonti with Ian Kerr who co-authored the newly released book

LESSONS FROM THE IDENTITY TRAIL

Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society

Ian co-authored this work with Valerie Steeves and Carol Lucock. Ian discusses issues related to privacy with respect to technology, the internet, social networking and national legal and social structures on CBC Radio - The Current on April 17th, 2009. You should listen to the Podcast and go to the freely download version of the book here. You an also purchase the printed version from here.

To learn more about Ian's work in the areas of privacy, copyright and concerns of all us in this connected age, head to his site.

TED - High-tech Wing Suit

We have been following the wonderful presentations of innovative and challenging ideas by the speakers that meet at the annual TED conferences. Here is one of those purely for fun and thrilling presentations on the extreme sport of skydiving in a wing suit. The suit permits the diver to come as close to flying as is humanly possible without mechanical aids. Check it out and other fascinating presentations at TED.

Sun Identity User Summit - Toronto - May 12, 2009

Sun Microsystems Canada is hosting their 2nd Identity User Summit in Toronto, Ontario Canada (Eh?) on May 12, 2009. This conference sounds pretty interesting since it is based on user presentations and papers and not presentations by vendors. For you techie types you can attend the OpenSSO Lab being run by Sun on May 13th. Here is a link to the conference website for more details and agenda.