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August 10, 2005
HHS multi-agency systems
Charles Havekost, HHS CIO, was a speaker at an IAC-sponsored lunch yesterday, which I attended, and he spoke a little about a HHS system that services multiple agencies for their ata-collection approval process. This isn’t the only example of such a multi-agency system at HHS:…
July 25, 2005
Forecastfox
I started using Forecastfox some time ago and absolutely love it. It’s a little Firefox extension that shows the current and forecast weather conditions wherever you wish in the browser. Until the latest version, the weather data came from Weather.com but…
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…
March 24, 2009
FDP posts draft agenda for May meeting
The FDP has now posted the draft agenda for their May meeting, which includes a panel on how to manage and administer ARRA funds, as well as the usual federal agency updates. I won’t be at this meeting, even though Newport Beach,…
November 30, 2007
Next NGP Meeting: Monday 12/3/07
The next NGP meeting is on Monday. I can’t attend (TCG’s annual planning meeting odyssey starts Sunday) but that should only encourage you to go yourself! The new NGP white paper, “The Need for Federal Grants Management Standards,” will be formally…
August 20, 2007
The Inner Life of the Cell
This incredible video was made by some folks at Harvard (supporting by the quite-wonderful Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and came to my attention through the NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group. Really quite an incredible view of the mechanics of life. …
March 31, 2012
Project: Facebook Data Liberation — Part 4 — Reading Feeds
Back in Part 1, I explained why I’m making this HTML5 application. The condensed version of the story so far is that I’m making is a web/mobile app that can read a running/fitness Facebook group feed. Now we are up to Part 4 where…
February 1, 2013
OMB to Host Webinar about Proposed New Federal Grants Regulations
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will host an informational webinar with members of the grants community on February 8, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. regarding OMB’s proposed grants reform initiative. No advance registration will be required for the webinar,…
July 23, 2007
FFATA update from FCW
Jason Miller at FCW has just published an article providing some very interesting details about progress towards fulfilling the requirements of FFATA, such as:
By July 31, DOD expects to begin testing the technology behind what OMB officials hope will be…
July 5, 2006
Independence Is Good, But We Need to Know Why
Just in time for the 4th of July, Kevin Shockey of Tux Magazine encourages users to “declare their independence from proprietary software.” By comparing the “revolution” of open source software, and desktop Linux in particular, to the American Revolution, he…