Clipper card employee makes email mistake
It’s a common email mistake, but rarely at this scale. A Clipper Card worker emailed more than 1,700 cardholders but forgot to use the BCC field. Original post
Yearly Archives: 2011
No quiet cars for subway riders
Tired of listening to another person’s music on a CTA train car, a Chicago Tribune reporter asked the question: “What is that guy thinking?” Original post
Open 311 for the lost generation?
We often talk about how we can empower digital entrepreneurs/developers/geeks, etc to develop the new apps to support our communities or transform our services, but like any change in culture of how we interact between councils and local people with skills, it can take time…even a generation. We have @hubmum‘s excellent “Coding for Kids” initiative,Read… Read more »
Don’t Insist on a Decision
All, During my morning Harvard “Management Tip Of The Day” feed read, I ran across an article that speaks to managerial on-the-spot decision making. The article is printed, in its entirety below and attached as well. It’s pretty self explanatory. ———————————————– Conventional wisdom holds that a flawed decision is better than no decision. After all,Read… Read more »
Myths and realities of cloud security
Whenever the topic of cloud computing comes up, cloud security isn’t far behind. Survey after survey has shown it to be a top CIO concern, but how much of that concern is legitimate? CTOvision’s Bob Gourley and Tom Reilly, Vice President and General Manger of Enterprise Security at HP separated myth from reality on cloudRead… Read more »
John Lilly: Joining the board of Code for America
(Cross-posted from John’s blog) I’m super, super excited to announce that I’ve joined the board of directors of Code for America, an organization started by Jen Pahlka two years ago aimed at getting some of the smartest and most motivated techies & designers among us working on solving some of the core problems facing ourRead… Read more »
A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer – Day 65
Day 65 I really wanted to title this blog post: Today I Discovered Why We Have no Transportation Funds! The other day, I wrote about the BRT and Randall Road – the major corridor that runs through many of the communities in our area. In that post, I also mentioned the Route 529 study –Read… Read more »
GMU StartUp Challenge
Tuesday November 8, George Mason University is hosting their annual StartUp Challenge. Seven Startups are scheduled to strut their stuff, so attendees will get an insight into the next crop of new technologies. I have been following Peter Corbett, going to Disruptathon and several DCTech meetings, and today’s startups are different from five years ago,Read… Read more »
Open Data Made Beautiful: Dark Sky
Today I came across probably the most beautiful use of public data I’ve ever seen: This came by way of a new app called Dark Sky that purports to predict the weather. Using your precise location, it tells you when it will precipitate and for how long; for instance, you boot it up before you’reRead… Read more »
Business to Information Technology translation
Past week was rather busy as I relocated my office; another case of changing the tires while the car is moving. It did give me time to continue to ponder how to translate business into enterprise architecture and then I.T. designs. The idea I came up with was integrating various proven models and methods intoRead… Read more »