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April 28, 2008
Grantium conference and news
Grantium’s got a lot on its plate these days! They have just announced their first North American G3 User Conference, to be held at the Hyatt in Bethesda, Maryland, from June 11th to 13th. You can go here to review the…
April 23, 2008
FBO.gov’s response to my bug report
FedBizOpps switched to a new system on April 1st and that system had some serious problems, which I reported to the FBO team and posted here on the blog. Last week I got a call from someone at FBO about this bug report and…
April 16, 2008
Shared services = standard services
Rant alert.
Larry Neff is the Deputy CFO at DOT, which runs an FMLOB shared services center. In this FCW article he makes it clear what the mission of these government shared service centers is:
…Neff said, agencies that require…
NextGov — Collaborative technologies drive accountability, say international CIOs
Nice quote from Karen Evans about wikis in government, in this article while commenting on the use of OMB’s MAX Federal Community:
“There was nervousness because the comments are there for everyone to see, and may become a political commentary,” Evans…
April 11, 2008
Demo of MAX Federal Community and BFELoB discussion
Just got this from the GSA collaboration folks. If you’re a government person with an interest in online collaboration, this could be a great event!
The Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business (BFELoB) Task Force is hosting a free forum on its…
April 8, 2008
Using VMWare to Watch TV?
I remember being so excited the first time I played PacMan in an emulator. Now virtualization has become so fast, I can watch TV in a virtual machine. Specifically, VMWare Server 1.0.5 is able to run Mythbuntu 7.10 as a front-end at 640x480 at…
April 7, 2008
Thunderbird and Google Desktop
I love Thunderbird. I love using Google Desktop with it — two whaps
at the “Ctrl” button and I get my search box, and I’m seconds away from
finding any message.
Unfortunately, Google Desktop still doesn’t index documents attached
to email messages…
April 6, 2008
Xeyes: Inviting an Old Friend to Microsoft Windows
In the early 90s, we worked on these large black and white Sun monitors with X‑Windows. The problem was that with monochrome screens, we’d lose our cursor if we glanced away for a second. The solution was xeyes: a charming set of…
April 2, 2008
Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast — April 16th
Just got this notice (and entered it on the Grants Management Events Calendar):
Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be a webcast only…
April 1, 2008
FBO.gov redesign creates frustration and angst
Government contractors’ favorite Web site, FedBizOpps.gov (known as FBO.gov), launched its redesign this week, and there are some significant problems with it. I just e‑mailed this list to the site maintainers:
1. New site registrants are sent their username AND password…