A Labor Day Message from AFGE President John Gage
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A sinking feeling
I’m watching the wikileaks Twitter account with great interest right now. As I type this, there is a steady stream of accusations aimed at the Guardian newspaper streaming up my screen. One of the things which has been linked to is this. It is Arus Bridger confirming the terms of receipt of ‘package 3’, agreeingRead… Read more »
pmStudent.com Reaches Half a Million Visitors
I’m making a weekend post today to thank all of you for engaging with me and reflect on my little project here at pmStudent.com, so please forgive my divergence from the normal topics. In The Beginning It was just me and my blog. I wrote for the fun of it, and wrote for myself. ItRead… Read more »
Education, Inc: A Conversation with the Texas Observer’s Abby Rapoport at Monkeywrench Books
Sep 13, 2011 at 7:00 pm MonkeyWrench Books 110 E. North Loop Austin, TX 512-407-6925 Please join MonkeyWrench Books and the Texas Observer for this conversation with Abby Rapoport. As the “education reform” movement has come to dominate policy, more and more education dollars find their way into mega-corporations. Testing contracts alone are worth hundredsRead… Read more »
Is That All You Got?
How many times have you walked out of a situation and said ” I did not get ANY of the things that I wanted!” If this has happened, you walked in without knowing your BATNA. BATNA stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement. It’s your backup plan; your plan B. Quite simply, when youRead… Read more »
“How to Manage Social Media” Presentations
My thanks to Joel Sarfati, Director of 40 Plus of Greater Washington D.C. and Professor Ray Kimball of Montgomery College’s TechLeap Program for inviting me to give presentations on “How to Manage Social Media for Busy Professionals” last week. Both events had great audiences, and I appreciated the vigorous question-and-answer sessions. Two slide decks shareRead… Read more »
Game over
Some evenings on my way home from work, I play a small private game of chicken. Now I have played it for the last time. If there are too many people at the bus stop – and no, I don’t know how many makes too many – that’s a sign that the gap between busesRead… Read more »
A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer – Day 25
Day 25 Water Main Extension Most of the first half of my morning was spent working on a cost estimate for the water main extension I have designed. I also filled out all the IEPA permits for the project and had our water superintendent sign them. Then I filled out the EcoCat to determine ifRead… Read more »
The Debt Deal: Hard truths and silver linings for local governments
As local government officials begin to sort through last month’s dramatic spending reduction deal (the Budget Control Act of 2011) and the impacts of New York-based Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Ratings Services’ subsequent lowering of the federal government’s long-term credit rating, it’d be easy to simply give in to the negative media coverage and acceptRead… Read more »
Sartor et al. on Legislative XML for the Semantic Web
Legislative XML for the Semantic Web: Principles, Models, Standards for Document Management (Springer 2011), a collection of scholarly articles on the use of XML and Semantic Web technologies in connection with legislative information systems, has been published. The volume is edited by Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor of Università di Bologna CIRSFID; Professor Dr. Monica PalmiraniRead… Read more »