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I have been a subscriber of TechRepublic for a few years now and I liked what they have been posting. One of their publications was this: The industry’s 10 best IT certifications. This can guide students choose among the many certifications. It’s worth sharing. Here’s a list with their links:

1. Microsoft Certified IT Professional
2. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
3. CompTIA’s Security+
4. Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
5. Cisco Certified Network Associate
6. CompTIA’s A+
7. The Project Management Professional
8. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
9. Certified Information Systems Security Professional
10. CompTIA’s Linux+

TechRepublic has released an article about 10 dying IT skills. These skills are believed to be falling out of favor by the ICT industry. These skills are as follows:

1. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
2. Novell Netware
3. Visual J++
4. Wireless Application Protocol
5. Coldfusion
6. RAD/Extreme Programming
7. Siebel
8. SNA
9. HTML
10. COBOL

Details about why these 10 are considered dying IT skills can be seen here.

Is it possible for a web service to accept a client’s data and analyze it without decrypting or seeing its private data? For IBM, it is possible. Unlike the RSA where a public key is given for encryption and your own private key for decryption, IBMs fully homomorphic encryption eliminates the need for private keys since there is no need to decrypt the data. This is a very useful technology specially for those offering Software as a Service (SAAS)  where software do not reside on the client’s site but on the vendor’s site. This improves privacy of client data even if vendors carry them.

I just revisited my friendster as it has been a while since I last logged in. I have been using facebook a lot recently. I tried accessing my friendster blog and noticed that you can change the “theme”. I tried the feature and noticed that changing the theme of the friendster blog was similar to that of changing a wordpress blog theme. Well, I continued and activated the theme and noticed the “Meta” section where you can access the “Site Admin” link which is what a default wordpress blog would have and it’s confirmed. Friendster is using wordpress for their blog. You can see the /wp-admin from the URL. Well, pardon my ignorance because I did not notice this before lolz.