[Also posted here] The final make-up assessments were (presumably) completed on Friday, February 25, 2011. This is a new thread where you can discuss your experience with the in person assessment this year. What did you think? How do you think you did? How do you think your fellow semifinalists did? What percentage of no-showsRead… Read more »
General Alexander is keeping busy at NSA/CYBERCOM Last week, General Alexander (director of NSA and commander, USCYBERCOM) spoke at the RSA conference in San Francisco. He pointed out the the explosion of technology over the past 10 years. That users went from an average of 250MB of personal files, to over 128GB. The fact thatRead… Read more »
Welcome to part four of the five-part series on how to use the Small Project Management Guide. This week we will discuss risk management which is my favorite project management topic. I’ve included several risk management tools in the Small Project Management Guide. I believe that Andy is a bit skeptical about these tools becauseRead… Read more »
MetroCard vandals and scammers are creating problems for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY) and for subway commuters. Original post
The book “Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention” from the World Bank and United Nations, will be discussed 9 March 2011 at the Australian National University in Canberra.Wednesday 9 March 2011Event Type: OtherTitle: Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective PreventionVenue: Canberry/Springbank RoomDate: 9/3/11Time 12:00 pm – 2: Original post
“Sterling, you are your own worst enemy,” my father told me. He was right. And it was one of the best lessons I’ve learned. I”ll spare you the exact details, but my life changed that day. That was December 28, 2008. I’ve made more mistakes in my young life than I care to remember, butRead… Read more »
Calls for papers, with diverse submission deadlines, have been issued for the workshops at ICAIL 2011: The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law; the workshops are scheduled to be held 6 and 10 June 2011, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. DESI IV: Workshop on Setting Standards for Searching Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings, 6Read… Read more »
If you have been working modern IT concepts in the federal space you probably already know of Kevin Jackson, the mission-focused writer of the Cloud Musings blog and Director of Cloud Services at NJVC . Kevin recently completed a new book, GovCloud: Cloud Computing for the Business of Government. I try to track cloud-related issuesRead… Read more »
Open data as an overall banner is a very useful one. It says exactly what it means – opening up data (for benchmarking, performance improvement, resource allocation efficiencies etc etc). What is becoming foggier as time passes, for me, is the role of all the individual stakeholders in this banner – I had to tryRead… Read more »
An unusual souvenir I picked up at the Bega Cheese Factory was a can of Bega Processed Cheese. The 113g tin of cheddar style cheese was $1.20 in the visitors centre. This is exported around the world (the label is in English and Arabic) has an official shelf life of two years. Larger 200g cansRead… Read more »