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June 8, 2010
NGMA Monthly Luncheon announced for June
Here are all the details for the next NGMA monthly training luncheon. Interesting topic again this month! Steve Erickson of the EPA will talk about “Open Government: Expanding Accountability for Federal Spending Information”. More details:
“This session introduces the Open…
August 30, 2016
6 Reasons Why We Think TCG is the Coolest Company in DC
This election season we have a tough decision to make. However, we hope your vote for the Coolest Company in DC is an easy one! TCG is a finalist in the Coolest Company in DC race and we need your vote to…
October 14, 2005
Recycling business detritus
When in the course of business events it becomes necessary for one party to dispose of that which once seemed necessary, the question is always: What the heck do I do with all this stuff?
It used to be easy to donate…
November 21, 2005
Grants.gov Find and Apply merger — now December 19
Just received an e‑mail about this from Grants.gov. Highlights below:
Grants.gov is pleased to announce the new date for its Find and Apply merge will occur on December 19th. This marks another important accomplishment for Grants.gov
initiative. On this date,…
February 20, 2009
NGP meeting rescheduled for 3/31/09
The last NGP meeting was canceled due to a broken water main at the Department of Education, and it has now been rescheduled for March 31st, 1.30pm‑3.30pm. The agenda is the same as before (here). And, remember, even if you can’t…
November 4, 2008
A Script to Automatically Update Clamav Packages
Clamav is an excellent open source multi-platform antivirus program that we use on our systems and projects. While clamav comes with utilities to update the antivirus definitions, there isn’t a utility to update the engine (instead the antivirus update gives a warning).…
May 14, 2008
And I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting
I should have noted that I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting tomorrow, as long as there’s a wifi network available. (And there’d better be or the hotel will have a riot on its hands!)…
July 11, 2010
On the Wisdom of Natural Language Programming
“Computer, how many new email messages do I have?”
“About 300.”
“How many interesting ones?”
“When is an email message ‘interesting’?”
“Let’s call an email interesting if it came from work or from someone I wrote to in the past week.”
“You have…
January 17, 2014
TCG CTO Robert Buccigrossi Wins 2014 Washington SmartCEO Executive Management Award
TCG’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Robert “Butch” Buccigrossi, is a winner of Washington SmartCEO’s 2014 Executive Management Award in the CIO/CTO category.
The Washington SmartCEO Executive Management Awards honor outstanding C‑suite executives in four categories—CFO, CIO/CTO, COO and CXO (other C‑suite…
August 29, 2006
Quick File Thunderbird extension
I have a lot of folders in my Thunderbird install, to track projects, people, companies, and so on. When I receive mail, most of it is filtered out into the appropriate folders but that leaves plenty of others that are not caught by…