Facebook banned in workplace !!!

In the UK, the Daily Telegraph reports that:

More than two thirds of employers are banning or restricting the use of Facebook and similar sites over fears that staff are wasting time on them when they should be working, a survey found…

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said staff were not allowed to use social networking sites at work.

“Access to some websites is blocked as there is no business need for employees to access them. Facebook is one of those sites,” he said.


Ref: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=112&tag=nl.e622

My official website uploaded

I recently uploaded a primary version of my official web site. I will update it continuously. Have a look, http://www.unik.no/personer/mushfiq/.

World's most per capita millionaires

No other country has more dollar-millionaires per capita than Norway, Roger Gullqvist of Paris-based consulting firm CapGemini. A new study compiled by CapGemini and Merrill Lynch showed that one out of every 86 Norwegians has more than USD 1 million (about NOK 5.8 million at current exchange rates) in net worth even when the net value of their primary residences is excluded. "When viewed in relation to the size of the population (around 4.6 million in Norway), there’s no other country that matches that level," Gullqvist said. Norway also has the largest number of dollar-millionaires of all the Nordic countries, which includes the three Scandinavian countries of Norway, Denmark and Sweden plus Finland and Iceland.

Couple of recent achievements in Research

* Ontology based Identity Management/Access Control in Corporate Environment. See www.SemID.org

* Mohammad M. R. Chowdhury, J. Noll, “Identity Management for Wireless Service Access”, In press as book chapter in “Handbook of Research on Wireless Security”, (to be published by Idea Group Reference, an imprint of Idea Group Inc. in early 2008).

* Mohammad M. R. Chowdhury, J. Noll, "Distributed Identity for Secure Service Interaction", Best Paper Award. The Third International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC'07, March 4-9,2007- Guadeloupe, French Cribbean. Published by IEEE Computer society press/IEEE Xplore

For more details, visit http://wiki.unik.no/index.php/Unik/Identity

Heavy rains cause flood in Southern Norway

The unusually heavy rain in Southern Norway over the past week has led to flooded basements and closed roads in many places. The Oslo-Bergen railroad is blocked.
Several county roads were closed due to flood water.

We have no problem at all, came from country of floods. Only problem is we have to stay inside in short summer here.

Wettest June in Oslo

We are currently experiencing very bad summer, had rain most days in June (even now in early July). According to meteorologists, it was the rainiest June since 1883.