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Do i need a monthly tag for the monthly report meltdown? Because yesterday, monthly report meltdown. Also, Excel, what did i do to break the template?

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Christine suggested i imagine chatting with my old boss to get the reality check and the grounding i need. Am i measuring up to your expectations, imaginary boss, memory of boss?

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The Internet Identity Workshop is fast approaching. http://www.idcommons.org/internet-identity-workshop-13-october-18-20-in-mountain-view-2/ It will be fascinating. I'll be drained from the week before's planning. SPOONS. It matches my current workplace professional development needs, but i don't know that i see a long time engagement for myself in that space. For a while i was so into copyright issues due to professional links. Both are issues i care about independent of work, but i am uncertain that i will find pursuing either "following my bliss."

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I've been reading "Rolling around in my head" as part of my education about accessibility. The author has had some depressing stories to share. Reading his blog prepared me for a link firecat shared today about the energy sapping and unproductive experience of asking for accommodation. One of the points made in that post was just how many sales had been lost.

Here's a post about someone finally getting accommodations: http://davehingsburger.blogspot.com/2011/09/stilettos-at-top-of-ramp.html

Happy Friday!

Identity providers in the SAML sense and some things they can do

For my friends who are interested in the nymwars and the US government's National Strategy on Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), this is a long post that hopes to establish how the technical term "Identity Provider" is a little different from establishing an online Identity.

It's late, i've left out lots, but there's lots of detail, that i think if you don't understand how the SAML Identity Provider technology works, you may misread in some technical discussion.

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