Astronaut Alvin Drew in China, Now at the Space Station
In 2009, our family went to China to see a solar eclipse. This was the second solar eclipse we had gone to, the first being in Turkey in 2006, but this time we also took…
B&B Multiculturalism in Harpers Ferry
February 15th was my 30th anniversary, which I will likely comment on in a separate post. Ellen and I decided that we would do our 30th anniversary ‘stuff’ later this year. Not everyone would understand…
Advice Needed for Federal IT Stories This Week
Francis Rose is a radio host for Federal News Radio, 1500am, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=16. Francis has a show called In Depth which is broadcast from 1pm – 3pm every day. The focus of the show as the…
Lessons From a Political CIO by Dan Mintz CIO, Department of Transportation
This morning in the Washington Post there was a column discussing the regular transition of political appointees, http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/fedcoach/2011/02/political-appointee-merry-go-round.html?hpid=smartliving. For those of you are are thinking of becoming a political appointee or wonder about the process,…
A Passing Thought About Knowledge Management Systems
I have been spending time this afternoon working on my UMUC Contemporary Topics in Informatics class. One of the topics my students have been commenting on relates to information sharing. One of the questions I…
Writing Winning Proposals
This morning I was discussing with some partners how to write winning proposals. I seemed to remember that I had talked before on this blog about proposals but upon searching around, found the only other…
On Leadership
I often refer to Leadership as being the ability to get people to do things when you are not in the room. For most of my professional career I did not particularly think about the…
Four Negative Rules of Life
In todays complex world it seems that many of us are looking for structure and guidance on how to make decisions. Years ago I remember reading (or hearing) about four negative rules which if in…
WikiLeaks
Since the latest set of releases associated with US diplomacy through WikiLeaks there has been endless commentary on all aspects of the leaks. I have read through many of the comments and columns and been…
Run Lola Run, Brief Comments
Finished Run Lola Run, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/run_lola_run/, Lola Rennt (literally Lola runs). I guess this is one of those films I had to see in the theatre to really appreciate rather than my usual 20-30 minutes at…