Tales from the Technoverse

  • The Future of Cybersecurity Panel – ATARC Federal Cybersecurity Integration Summit – May 20

    ATARC is sponsoring a Federal Cybersecurity Integration Summit this coming Wednesday, May 20, at the Renaissance Washington, in downtown Washington DC. The agenda is here. There are also links there for those who are interested in registering for the Summit. From 11:00am – 11:45am I will be moderating a panel that will take a look…

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  • Cleopatra: A Life

    Thanks to Ellen, I renewed, well, I got a new, library card. Now that I have an actual commute since my un-semi-retirement over to Largo MD where my offices at UMUC are, I download audio books from the Library onto my cell phone and play them over the bluetooth speakers in the car. This morning…

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  • Departures – Worth Viewing

    The story concerns a young couple, the film begins with the husband, Daigo, a cellist whose orchestra goes out of business, needing a job. He answers an ad which says that applicants do not have to have a lot of experience, the position is high paying, and the work is with “departures”. Thinking it might…

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  • Abortion and An Eye for an Eye

    This week in synagogue we read Parsha Mishpatim, Exodus 21:1 – 24:18. God dit not just provide the Ten Commandments, but also a large number of more detailed laws. A number of these laws are covered in this weeks portion of the Torah. One part deals with laws covering penalties for crimes and laws relating…

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  • Everything As A Service

    Recently I was on the DorobekINSIDER LIVE show along with Sean Herron, Product Lead and Developer at 18F; and Richard Beutel, Senior Advisor and Counsel for Acquisition Policy House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The link to the show is here. The attitude to Cloud has changed dramatically since I was the CIO at the…

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  • Firefly Is Everywhere

    Some blog posts I write are actually written hoping someone will read them, in particular when I discuss technology or sometimes political topics. Some blog posts are random musings on some aspect of entertainment and while I am unsure as to whether I add serious value to the public square they are least are comprehensible. Some blog…

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  • It Turns Out You CAN Go Home Again – A New Job

    Slightly over forty years ago, I received a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland College Park (the major had just been created). It started me off on a random walk through the continually changing Information Technology field. When I first wrote a computer program to bid bridge in high school and…

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  • Of All Things – Stamps

    A while ago, I looked through the desk in my home/office and collected all of the stamps that I had laying around. It turned out that I had two partial rolls of stamps, neither of which contained stamps equal in value to those I needed to mail envelops. I went to the post office to…

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  • Next AFFIRM Lunch Focuses on IT Budget Priorities, December 18

    The next AFFIRM lunch, and the last one of the 2014 calendar year, will include highlights from TechAmerica’s 50th Annual Federal Market Forecast relating to Budget, Acquisition and Technology and will include presentations from a number of invited speakers: Karen Britton, EOP, Sonny Hashmi, CIO, GSA, and Tom Sasala, CTO, US Army Information Technology Agency.…

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  • The Beginnings of Information Technology 3.0

    In order to talk about Information Technology 3.0, it is necessary to explain what I mean by Information Technologies 1.0 and 2.0. The first generation of Information Technology focused on replacing what was already in place by something more efficient and faster, but substantially the same in function. Thus computers initially, even though the beginnings…

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