Tales from the Technoverse

  • Counting Down

    I’ll be on the Francis Rose hosted Federal News Countdown this coming Friday at 4pm, on WFED, 1500 on your AM (yes, they still broadcast on AM) dial. The format of the show is two people “select three news stories they think are most important in the world of government.” So my next step is…

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  • Sharing Is Not Always An Easy Thing – Federal-Commercial Spectrum Data Workshop

    I have been asked to facilitate a workshop which will attempt to move the dialog along about spectrum sharing.  The workshop will be all day October 21st at the National Science Foundation It is one of the action steps that resulted from President Obama’s Memorandum on “Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution”, further discussed in a…

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  • The Buck Stops Here

    There are, at least, two things that my daughters mention that I never did for them. I never took them fishing (of course I have almost never fished) and I never took them horseback riding (I guess I did that a little bit myself but it violated my ‘feet-are-on-the-ground happy place’ approach. The movie I…

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  • Rent Seeking, Teeth Whitening, and Grapes

    George Will has an interesting column today about rent seeking as it applies to teeth whitening. Rent seeking is an economics term used when someone attempts to achieve additional profits without creating actual value. It often is used to describe situations when someone uses the government to implement policies that reduce competition to allow this…

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  • Life’s Little Annoyances

    When one represents that shrinking number of people who actually still rent actual DVD’s to watch (my Netflix queue is up to around 490), some things end up being a mild irritant that others would not even notice. It is normal that when a DVD starts there are a series of previews of films that…

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  • Well, That Hurt

    There are times when I am not sure I am in sync with Tennyson’s “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”, at least to the extent one applies it to rooting for a sports team. For most of my life I either was a fan of a really lousy…

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  • There is No Place Like Gnome

    So Friday morning when I woke up early, something I unfortunately seem to have inherited from my father who also was an early rising, when I went to my home/office and looked at my computer keyboard I found a gnome hat, made by my wonderful wife Ellen. So naturally the first thing I did was…

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  • Chak De! India

    As I have mentioned before most (it should really be all) mornings I walk on an elliptical walker down in the basement and watch movies. It usually takes 3-5 days to watch each movie, or if it is a TV show series (for example, I just finished season 1 of Once Upon A Time), I…

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  • Out Is A Cybersecurity Problem

    There is an interesting article about the Department of Defense database used to track security clearance revocations. The article talks about a database which had been setup to keep track of those people who had their security clearances revoked. The context was to help in identifying high-risk individuals that might compromise security. It is another…

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  • My Presentation to the Maryland Commission on Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence

    I was invited to testify earlier today before the Maryland Commission on Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence. The Commission was established by the Maryland State Legislature to “conduct an overview of federal and state cyber security laws and policies and consider Maryland’s role in promoting cyber innovation and to recommend a comprehensive framework and strategic plan for…

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