I was invited to testify earlier today before the Maryland Commission on Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence. The Commission was established by the Maryland State Legislature to “conduct an overview of federal and state cyber security laws…
So for the last three days (and evenings) Ellen and I have walked to Nationals Park from the Gallery Place Metro, a slightly more than two mile walk. And each day (and evening) the Nationals…
It’s that time again for another ATARC (Advanced Technology Academic Research Center) hosted Summit. And when there is a summit, there is a research/academic panel that I moderate. The summit is the Federal Mobile Computing…
Most mornings I walk on an elliptical walker in the basement and watch movies (or TV shows) from DVD’s from my over Netflix queue (now over 400 DVD’s long). Many of the films I watch…
As I have written previously, Ellen and I pick a local park to walk in every couple of weeks. Earlier this week, we went to Black Hill Regional Park, http://www.montgomeryparks.org/facilities/regional_parks/blackhill/. Black Hill is really nice, Little…
I moderated a panel about the Future of Cloud Computing July 9 at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit. The three excellent panelists were: Amol Deshpande, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University…
As many of you know my birthday was earlier this week.
Most of the day of my birthday I spent working on responding to discussion posts and grading midterm papers for the graduate class I teach at the University of Maryland University College. During the day I talked to my two wonderful daughters. I spent a weekend with Miriam, joined on Saturday by Ellen, seeing Broadway shows, movies (including Serenity, of course), an improv show, and wandered around New York City; my pre-birthday birthday. This coming Monday I will go with Ellen and my other daughter Tamar to see a jazz saxophonist at Blues Alley, Mindi Abair, my post-birthday birthday.
Of course I also received many Facebook and Linkedin Happy Birthday’s. One in particular stood out from someone I only met once. She worked at the FAA in Oklahoma City. I had lunch with her and a number of other FAA staff there, probably around 2007. She wrote that she had been thinking of me and the fact that I introduced her to Firefly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series), and Serenity, all of which she loved, and noting that if I was interested in watching Nathan Fillion, who played the Captain in both, that he was in Castle (which I was aware of, but appreciated being told). More on this shortly.
I will be moderating a panel about the Future of Cloud Computing at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit tomorrow July 9th at the Ronald Reagan Building starting at 2:45. It should be a great panel…
This morning, Ellen asked me to keep my shower short (scheduling issues). My response was that since I was the man, and thus the King, of the house, I could do whatever I wanted. In…
One of the activities which I have promised Ellen I would partake more in is walking with her (she really likes to walk). So on a more regular basis we walk around the neighborhood and…