September 20, 2006

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will be irrelevant within 2 years

So high-definition video discs are hitting the stores now and yet again the electronics industry has shot itself (and early adopters) in the foot. Only, I think this is a lot worse than the Betamax-versus-VHS nonsense we all suffered through, or did…
March 20, 2009

Reauthorization of PL106-107 moves ahead

Cornelia Chebinou of the NGP just pinged the membership with this good news: Please be advised that on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, the Senate passed S. 303, the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 2009, which would reauthorize P.L. 106–107.…
May 31, 2012

ORCID Proposes Unique Identifiers For Scientific Authors

Uniquely identifying  people in an electronic database can be a very hard problem.  I ran into this problem on my first project with TCG and it has come up a number of times since then.  Given a large enough sample size, you can find…
May 15, 2008

Reducing Spam Blowback Bounce Messages in Zimbra

With our company’s move to the Zimbra mail server finally complete (and working very well), we noticed an sudden increase of a particular type of spam: fake bounce or mail server error messages.  This was surprising since our old mail and…
July 6, 2005

Google! — grants and open source

I spotted this post on Slashdot about some old Google pages that are available on WayBackMachine.com, which is an archive of Internet sites and web pages. One of the pages in the archive is the old About Google! page, and…
May 13, 2011

LAMHDI Team Exhibiting at Immunology 2011 Conference

TCG’s LAMHDI Team will be exhibiting at Immunology 2011, the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in San Francisco starting May 14th. TCG built and is maintaining LAMHDI for the National Center for Research Resources under contract…
March 1, 2012

Online Grants Manual Part of Maryland’s Grants Library

The Maryland Governor’s Grants Office has put its grants managers’ manual on its website along with other resources that applicants and administrators might need. One link on the site, for instance. lets businesses download a document that contains  finance programs for…
April 3, 2007

GSA to seek commercial financial management providers

FCW popped out an interesting report last week: GSA plans to issue an RFP to solicit the private sector to act as a financial management service center, as part of the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB). According to Danny Harris,…
January 19, 2006

Grants.gov meets 25% ‘find’ target

Grants.gov met its target to publish 25% of all Federal grant opportunities through the Grants.gov portal in FY2005, reports GCN. That’s quite an achievement. The target for next year is 75%. Yikes! Technorati : e‑gov, grants, grants management, grants.gov Del.icio.us :…
January 23, 2006

DHS emphasizes cybersecurity in grant kit

From Government Computer News: The IT-related guidance is included in the fiscal 2006 grant application kit for the distribution of $3.9 billion in federal homeland security grants to states and localities this year, published by the preparedness directorate. So it…