Miss the little buggers (at grandma & grandpas) already…

Just updated their Safari plugin – seems to work great in Safari 4.0 Beta. Also added a nifty embedded flash viewer that has lots of the same visualizations and whatnot.

This is pretty cool – I may have to replace my default Flickr photo bit with this…

Loading the kids in the car

The front yard

Its a bit creepy when Facebook shows you the birthday of a friend who has passed away. The FB kids weren’t thinking about death and divorce.

http://twitter.com/gwachob

Listening to Scott talk about CAS4 work and effort. Core items he’s mentioned look to be:

• Redesigned to better support non-CAS protocols (e.g. SAML, etc.)
• Increased emphasis on SAML as a product
• Better admin tools (service administration, workflow for registering services)
• Eased configuration (w/o needing to edit deployerContext.xml)
• Better extension points: captcha, “password expired” messages
• Governance and other changes

Scott’s mentioned the timeframe is end of this year, with Rutgers looking to go-live over the summer. Cas 3.3.x is still the production maintenance release, and there are intentions for a transition period, though some of the details have not yet been worked out.

In Dallas at the Jasig Conference, getting ready for the Board meeting where we’ll be looking at licensing, incubation, and some other strategic concerns related to open-source in HigherEd. Already had some great conversations about CAS & credential replay, Peoplesoft integration, and open-source economics & dynamics.

P.S. Ian Dolphin clarified over beers last night that he has not actually hit 2 million miles, and that’s a meme that Chuck Severance has propagated through the net space