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Maryland Renaissance Festival – Still Great
So yesterday, Saturday, Ellen went to NYC to provide moral (and physical) support to Miriam to help with her apartment move from someplace in Brooklyn to some other place in Brooklyn (you can tell how well I know Brooklyn). BTW, among other things Ellen spent five hours (FIVE HOURS!!) with Miriam and Miro (Miriam’s roommate)…
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How Do You Handle a Brawny…, I mean Brony…, Um
I recently read an article about the annual BronyCon, www.bronycon.org, held a few weeks ago in Baltimore MD. After finally realizing that this was a real event, I naturally turned to the Internet to find out more. The BronyCon is a convention focused on the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Attendees are almost all…
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Department of the Interior and the Cloud
An interesting article in InformationWeek Government about DOI’s plans for cloud computing: The Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) decision to invest as much as $10 billion to migrate its IT operations to the cloud, through a set of 10 competing contracts, is perhaps the most significant example yet of how central cloud computing is becoming…
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Movie Review: Ballad of a Soldier
I finished watching Ballad of a Soldier earlier this week, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ballad_of_a_soldier/. Ballad of a Soldier per Rotten Tomatoes, was “the first Russian film to score an American success during the Cold War era”. It was released in 1959. The movie has a relatively rare 100% rating in Rotten Tomatoes, one of the reasons why I…
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Federal News Countdown Stories – Mobile Apps, Continuous Monitoring, Confusion Around Intell Review Leadership
Last Friday, I was on the Federal News Countdown on WFED, hosted by Francis Rose, along with Steven Bucci, Director of the Douglas & Sarah Allison Center and Senior Fellow for Defense & Homeland Security at The Heritage Foundation. Here is the link to the broadcast: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/156/3425850/Federal-News-Countdown-New-DHS-contract-standardizes-cyber-protections-DoD-cuts-force-lower-sights-on-drones. The way the News Countdown works is that each…
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Is Big Data an Economic Big Dud?
An interesting take on the impact of Big Data, measuring it by its overall impact on the world economy. If Big Data is, in fact, important to improving business (or organizational) behavior, one would think it would have at least some measurable positive impact … There is just one tiny problem: the economy is, at…
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Federal News Countdown, the Nationals, and the Maryland Renaissance Festival
FEDERAL NEWS COUNTDOWN As many of you know (assuming that there is in fact a ‘you’, that is people who read this), I am fortunate to be asked back by the evidently non-discerning, but always interesting and entertaining, Francis Rose to be on his show the Federal News Countdown, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=155. I will be on tomorrow,…
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Cultural Enhancement
For the last, well, forever, Ellen has pointed out that I have not been a very enthusiastic visitor to Art Galleries or Museums, which are places she really likes to visit. All of my attempts to explain to her that if Epcot had an Art Gallery, I would be glad to go on a regular…
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AFCEA Bethesda Mobility Technology Symposium, AMARC is an Educational Partner
Please join AFCEA Bethesda and the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) at the Mobility Technology Symposium to be held on August 8, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. This half-day education forum will go beyond the business case for mobility and look at how agencies are developing and implementing emerging mobile technology…
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AMARC Panel at the Mobile Summit
In addition to hosting a summit on mobile technology at the Reagan Building July 9, http://www.mobilefeds.com/, the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) also coordinated and ran a panel on Security and Mobile Technology. The panel, which I moderated, included professors from George Washington University, Stevenson University, George Mason University, as well as the CIO for…
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