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Ellen & Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 5
Today was our transition from the first part of our trip, in Cape Breton Island, to Prince Edwards Island. Interestingly when we asked people in Cape Breton about PEI, they almost always said that it was pretty nice but they rarely visited there. One person described PEI as a potato field surrounded by water which…
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Ellen & Dan’s Excellent Adventures in Nova Scotia – Day 4
Tuesday was a leisurely day starting in Ingonish on the East side of Cape Breton about half-way down the coast, completing the loop we started yesterday, swinging back in a circle through Baddeck and ending up in the early afternoon in Mabou, at the bottom of the west side of Cape Breton. The Lantern Inn…
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Ellen and Dan’s Excellent Adventures in Nova Scotia – Day 3
Today had two main parts to it, the Alexander Grahme Bell museum and our trip around much of the Cabot Trail. To finish off a comment on our stay in Baddeck, a lovely community on the shore of a truly beautiful lake, Bras D’Or, our B&B we stayed in called the Water’s Edge Inn, was…
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Ellen and Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 2
Today was in large part a vist to the Fortress of Louisbourg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Louisbourg. Breakfast at the Louisbourg Harbour Inn was great, if you are in Louisbourg, recommend going there. You drive over to near Fortress Louisbourg and park at the visitor’s office. There you catch a bus which takes you to the Fortress.
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Ellen and Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 1
Ellen had long expressed an interest in visiting Prince Edwards Island, the site of the Anne of Green Gables stories, and nearly Nova Scotia. I had always heard it was a very beautiful place to visit, the high’s were going to be in the 70’s, not the 90’s, and going would be consistent with my…
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Happy Anniversary of American Exceptionalism
Late last year, December 2009, I was asked by the Inter-American Development Bank to participate in a project to look at eGovernment for the Brazilian Government. During the time I worked on that effort, I got to know a number of the IADB staff. One of them who was born in Spain, married an American…
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The Problem With Government Security
During the time I served as the CIO at the US Department of Transportation when I wanted to annoy my Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the CISO staff, I would point out that in my opinion there were two things wrong with computer security within the Federal Government. First, we put security in charge.…
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My Slides from the University of Maryland University College 2010 Annual Cybersecurity and Homeland Defense Symposium
Last month I was the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland University College 2010 Annual Cybersecurity and Homeland Defense Symposium and Job Fair, http://www.umuc.edu/securitystudies/cybersymposium_agenda.shtml. A few people asked me to post my presentation, but I have found that my current job as the COO at Powertek Corporation has caused me to miss many of…
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Management of Change Conference, Dan Heath Author of Switch
The kickoff to this years Management of Change conference here in Philadelphia was the Presentation of the Honorable John J. Franke Award and then a presentation after dinner by Dan Heath, who wrote Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. This years winner of the Franke Award was recently retired from Government service…
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Cloud Computing Panel at the Cloud Computing Summit
There was a joke that circulated years ago that if you wanted to get additional budget for IT you just said it was for ‘The Internet’. No one was quite clear as to what they would do, but they knew they wanted to be on, or in, or connected to it. In the Pentagon that…
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