Miscellaneous

GovTwit Week in Review 8/23 – 8/29

Busy weekend, so consider this the “day-late but hopefully not dollar short” edition of the week in review… ~~~~~~ Great commentary posted on the “Web 2.0 Revolution” by GSA CIO Casey Coleman over at Federal Times last week where she draws parallels between Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” writings and the rise ofRead… Read more »

hm, I’d like to participate but…

I’m having problems with access to things like ‘forums’… I have access to all the features in synchronocity but not govloop 🙁 And I’ve had no problems accessing capability in DEFStar. So… my contributions (sadly) will be limited on govloop. I can only get so for on govloop, which is surprising since it’s sponsored byRead… Read more »

TSP Talk – Sideways to Slightly Higher

Good morning! It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. This market commentary is updated daily on www.tsptalk.com. Stocks took a little breather on Friday as the Dow and S&P dropped modestly, but the Nasdaq managed to stay positive. The TSP funds were mixed: F and I up; C and S down. The S&P 500… yawn…Read… Read more »

Australia discovers new dinosaur

The wonders this earth still hold amazes me everyday. I wonder just how many secrets are on this rock which have not been discovered. Australian palaeontologists say they have discovered a new species of dinosaur on a sheep farm in the northern state of Queensland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8224279.stm

Space shuttle lifts off for ISS

And … then there are lots of wonders “out there” we want to discover. The amount of what we know is just a grain of sand on the beach of what we don’t know. All the knowledge of the earth, the sea, and space will keep humans busy for centuries and centuries. Every question answeredRead… Read more »

Rural Telehealth & Advanced Technologies Conference

(The full text of this excerpted blog post appears on Mike Russell’s blog at: blog.planetrussell.net) As the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania heads into the 60th day of its marathon state budget impasse, that’s no deterrent to some of the best and brightest minds in healthcare technology, military medicine, rural development and public policy. They’ll be convergingRead… Read more »

Thief Sues Victim

Here is a story which makes me really angry at the rights criminals have. http://news.aol.com/article/thief-sues-michigan-store-he-robbed/646032 You have law abiding employees getting robbed by a theif, and he wants to sue for his pain, suffering and emotional distress. I have no use for somone like this. It boils down to, what action happened when this manRead… Read more »