WorldCup 2006

Last post was on May 1 - almost two months have passed; unsettling feel. Few tasks remain on the radar, with a few seep into the ether space of others awaiting responses if our views cling like Sarawrap, or simply the ideas form like a soccer, protruding into the recycle bin. Nonetheless, my interests of RFID and AOLA still keep me up once in awhile.

The privacy and security issues arise in the RFID life cycle (raw materials, products, consumption, disposal, recycle, then back to raw materials) find some common threads from raw materials to consumption in business chains. These threads (constructs or dependent variables in empirical lingo) support characterization of supply chain partners with respect to sharing data. Development of privacy and security framework for data sharing in a EPCglobal network-like environment can move forward. Of course, there is no EPCglobal network in operation per se [a new flash on June 22 2006 discussed the 'Acer RFID Network' completion in Taiwan], and we do not look at the e-infrastructure of the RFID space with only the EPCglobal Network. Anyhow, we will move to data sharing from consumption-to-disposal next.

AOLA remains in the activityEditor development cycle. The activityEditor allows participants to create e-Activities (or lessons) for the ePlatform for Mathematics Education. I was sidetracked with an interesting applications that use PDFTextStream, iText, and Faceless for extraction, regeneration and presentation of PDF-based information. Wonder if searching of mathematics symbols can be done now on the Web (with the big assumption that mathematics symbols are unified - is this word right?!).

Along the way, I just finished reading 'Beach Road' by James Patterson with Peter de Jonge, and will start on 'At Risk' by Patricia Cornwell. I enjoyed the interplay between fictional characters more than anything else.