San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network - Network World

Interesting!! A failover IT admin would have saved them some grief!

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Here is another related article:

How to Protect Your Network from Rogue IT Employees

Oracle Introduces BI Application for iPhone

Oracle announced today the release Oracle Business Indicators, an iPhone-native application that will enable executives and managers to access "key metrics and analytical data" from Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).

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Bringing real science into Second Life

SL5B Roundtable: Scientists and Science Outreach Event on July 1, to showcase how science outreach specialists are bringing real science into Second Life and to inspire new ideas of science in future.

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Another blog site (Second Sight) by somebody who is on one such panel and has been involved with Second Life a lot more.

Access Second Life keynote Speeches here

Getting started with AJAX using PHP

Very simple tutorial on how to implement AJAX using PHP.

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