Tales from the Technoverse

  • Standards-Driven Application Development for Workforce Mobility

    Tomorrow’s Bethesda AFCEA Breakfast meeting, https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=NOVE97E&TID=xhh5zkXBjYekK9OB0rp3Kw%3d%3d, is about application development within the Federal Government, a very relevant topic. We are finding that the amount of reach-out to AMARC, www.amarcedu.org, from the Government relating to the creation and utilization of app-stores for Government utilization continues to increase.

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  • Implementing Innovation in Government

    <This blog post was originally published on Powertek Corporation’s website:  http://www.powertekcorporation.com/index.php/blog-article, and is republished here with their permission>   The issue of achieving innovation in Government is a pretty hot topic right now. In this blog entry, I talk about how well the Government is doing in being more innovative; explore some of the reasons…

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  • Federal Cloud Computing Summit

    AMARC, www.amarcedu.org, is hosting our next Federal Cloud Computing Summit, http://www.cloudfedsummit.com/, December 17 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC. We will have panels on Innovation Today, Cloud Acquisition Solutions, Security Harmonization, and one I will moderate about Cloud Computing futures. In addition, we will have a presentation from Mitre of their Cloud Collaboration…

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  • Jumping the Shark

    Tonight I went to and had a great time at the Bethesda Young AFCEA Fiscal New Year Networking Event. It was good to see long-time and newly initiated friends and be reminded that the current partial government shutdown will eventually come to some kind of resolution (eventually). In addition, it is always great to go…

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  • A Wonderful Nobel Peace Prize Candidate

    Evidently the winner or winners of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday. This award, which at least in my opinion, does always recognize someone who has taken personal risks to demonstrate their commitment to peace and fundamental human rights, this year if awarded to Malala Yousafzai, would be given to someone who…

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  • The Impact of the Digital Economy – A Contrary Viewpoint

    Andrea Di Maio, a Managing VP at Gartner, and one of the more insightful people I know, wrote an interesting blog earlier today entitled “Tempering the Enthusiasm About a Digital Economy: A Counterpoint”,  http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2013/10/08/tempering-the-enthusiasm-about-a-digital-economy-a-counterpoint/. He notes the increasing acceleration of technological change and the impact on societies. While many positive results have resulted from such changes,…

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  • The Book Thief

    So I have seen the trailer for the movie The Book Thief twice in the last week or two. And I teared up BOTH TIMES, I suspect that if my daughters ever actually read this blog they would both be laughing right now since they have seen many movies with me over the years. I…

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  • A Passing Thought About Winning the Lottery

    It occurred to me the other day that as a mostly consultant these days that if we won one of the multi-hundred million dollar lotteries, I would have to tell myself I was not coming back to work. Somehow that seems less satisfying.

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  • Half of My Life

    So today marks a pretty significant date in my life. As of today, September 22, 2013, I will have been married (to one person) for 50% of my life. It is not entirely clear what I should consider the takeaway from that fact. It does occur to me that my two daughters opinion that I…

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  • The Dog Channel

    So there was a thread by a friend of mine about what channel they left their TV on for their dogs when the dogs were left home alone. The conversation wandered to the dog channel on direct tv, http://www.directv.com/premiums/dogtv. For $4.95/month you too could have your dog watch a ‘scientifically proven’ way of providing relaxing…

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