Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for November 17th from 04:13 to 14:23:

• Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis, 2007 – defines Event correlation and analysis products as:

  * Support the acceptance of events from elements in the IT infrastructure (including hardware, software, server, virtual machines, operating system, network, storage, security, database, application and mainframe elements).
  * Process events using consolidation, filtering, normalization, enrichment, correlation and analysis techniques.
  * Notify the appropriate IT operations personnel of critical events.
  * Automate corrective action, where possible.

• NRRF – Illiteracy: An Incurable Disease or Education Malpractice? – According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans can't read; 50 million can recognize so few printed words they are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one out of every four teenagers drops out of high school, and of those who graduate, one out of every four has the equivalent or less of an eighth grade education.

  According to current estimates, the number of functionally illiterate adults is increasing by approximately two and one quarter million persons each year. This number includes nearly 1 million young people who drop out of school before graduation, 400,000 legal immigrants, 100,000 refugees, and 800,000 illegal immigrants, and 20 % of all high school graduates. Eighty-four percent of the 23,000 people who took an exam for entry-level jobs at New York Telephone in 1988, failed.

• Tour de Flex | Flex.org – Rich Internet Application Development – Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.