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"Blue" Is the New "Green" - part 1

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Summary: Blue is the new Green: while Green is the moral discourse of sustainability, Blue is the economic language that will help us achieve it.

CESI SOA Forum, continued

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I will slog through this post despite the throbbing headache caused by the "white wine" (translate, 90 proof rice brandy) I was asked to consume profusely yesterday evening at a Guangdong-style (Cantonese) restaurant.

CESI SOA Forum, Beijing, Nov. 5 and 6, 2008

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I'm 45, I've been in technology for longer than should be mentioned in polite conversation, and yet, this is my first time in China -- and Beijing, for all of its unique Imperial role and history, definitely counts as China.

SpamAssassin at Work

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I've recently deployed a new spam filter at work and I'm rather proud of the results after the first few weeks.

Trying to give back...

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I'm a Free Software advocate, to say the least. Here at OASIS, we use the open-source and free software package, Drupal, to manage a number of sites. Each site has its own customizations and I've been working to keep my contributions and patches as generic as possible so that I can contribute them back to the various modules. I've also taken a couple of custom modules I've been using both for sites OASIS runs and for sites I manage or have managed in my out-of-work time and created Drupal projects to manage them. I've filled out my Drupal profile a bit too.

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