Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — I noticed her immediately. The line I was in was moving at the speed of molasses, and I was looking for a distraction. I found one in a beautiful post-collegiate girl enjoying her Saturday in the hip Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC. “Hi boys!” this darkly-tanned brunette exclaimed, uponRead… Read more »
I read over the weekend that Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for Vice President, is a fan of Rage Against the Machine. As a child of the 90’s, I couldn’t help but make them the choice for this week’s Monday Pick Me Up. Enjoy. Original post
I decided I was going to read a book a week for a year, here’s a quick review of this week’s book. You can see the ongoing list here. Basic Info The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change It by Charles Duhigg Why I read it I readRead… Read more »
Ok so I recently folded under pressure from colleagues (or maybe I was really curious) and decided to check out all the fuss around Pinterest. Apparently, it’s the fastest growing social network or something and recently opened up to everyone to get an account. In any case, I came across this infographic that pointed outRead… Read more »
AFGE staff provided members with information about where to vote as part of the union’s AFGE Defends Democracy campaign. More than 1,500 federal employees and union activists from across the nation have converged on Las Vegas for AFGE’s 39thNational Convention. Members began checking in Saturday afternoon. Dozens of members volunteered as Sergeant in Arms toRead… Read more »
This weekend I spent some time on code for america and rootstrikers, Some ideas about open311 : http://openpubadmin.blogspot.de/2012/08/ideas-about-open311.html Some code i wrote for CFA/open311 http://openpubadmin.blogspot.de/2012/08/open311-client-and-test-server.html and for rootstrikers : https://bitbucket.org/h4ck3rm1k3/the-anti-corruption-pledge hope you like it, mike
We recently relaunched our GovLoop Jobs Finder (jobs.govloop.com) which builds upon the USAJOBS data set to make it easy to find great federal jobs. I’ve been spending a lot of time researching federal jobs so I thought I’d share 4 facts about finding your next federal job based on our subs-set of data we areRead… Read more »
Pegasus Global Holdings is planning to build a full-scale city somewhere in New Mexico “to test and evaluate technologies in conditions that most closely simulate real-world applications.” According to the project’s website, CITE-CITY, the company proposed building the model to overcome challenges related to access, long waits, and costs that they faced in carrying outRead… Read more »
Stocks continue to move up The S&P 500 (C-fund) closed up on Friday for a sixth consecutive positive day. Some of those days were very small gains, but the bears have not been able to put up a red number in the S&P since August 2. Now the stock market is facing some resistance andRead… Read more »
We’re wrapping up the first week of our scholarship fund drive for the 2012 NCDD conference and want to thank our latest contributers for your generosity! Our goal is to raise $15,000 from our community to help people from diverse backgrounds make it to NCDD Seattle who may not otherwise be able to join us.Read… Read more »