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September 27, 2011
Dissecting a JavaScript CSS Browser Selector
If you are a web developer and have not seen Rafael Lima’s CSS Browser Selector yet, you should check it out. It is a 1K JavaScript file that lets you easily add CSS to your web page for specific browsers, operating systems,…
Introducing the E‑mail Charter
TCG’s mission is to save time and if you’re like me, trying to keep up with the onslaught of e‑mail certainly does not help save time. An article in Sunday’s Washington Post highlighted this growing problem and introduced the e‑mail…
September 25, 2011
Telecommuting Is About Productivity, Not Pajamas
A company called CareerBuilder “the U.S.‘s largest online job site,” sent out a news release this month with the headline “Nearly One-in-Five Americans Who Work From Home Spend One Hour a Day or Less Working, CareerBuilder Survey Finds.” The question CareerBuilder tried…
September 23, 2011
How much does a government employee cost?
What does our federal workforce cost us? It’s a hard question to answer, because the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t say what the loaded cost is. BLS says the average federal salary is $35.65/hour (see their website), but that isn’t the…
September 20, 2011
Reverse Project Estimation
TCG has a big goal we have been working towards for a number of years now. The plan is to save American taxpayers ONE BILLION DOLLARS by 2016. One of the ways we save government money is by suggesting and using existing…
September 16, 2011
Old News Is Good News!
Even in today’s world of instant communications, sometimes news still travels slowly. TCG recently learned that it had been recognized by Washington Business Journal as one of the Top 20 Small Technology Companies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area in…
September 14, 2011
TCG Is a 2011 WBJ 50 Fastest Growing Company
TCG has been named by the Washington Business Journal as one of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in the Washington region for 2011. This is TCG’s first time on the list, which is based on consecutive growth over the last…
Use your iPhone/Laptop/Android as a remote control for MythTV
Four years ago, a blogger named Kyle blogged about a simple but effective web script that allows most smart phones to control a MythTV setup. Though he built his script for MythDora, it works wonderfully on MythBuntu with the following steps as root (assuming…
September 13, 2011
TCG Ranked #11 on Washington Business Journal List of Small Technology Companies
TCG has been recognized by Washington Business Journal as one of the Top 20 Small Technology Companies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area for the third year in a row. TCG is ranked 11th on the list, which is based on…
September 6, 2011
Invitations From the Captain Can Not Be Declined
For as long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed reading. As I’ve aged the kinds of books that I find interesting have been expanding. Historical fiction never interested me as a youth, but as an adult I found a number of authors in this genre…