Ensure Optimum Performance of the Applications

Having an effective performance management strategy in place is important to foster accountability, cost efficiency and transparency of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act. CA Wily Application ...

Citizen Feedback

If the goal is truly to allow the monitoring of expenditures and use of funds, then the first issue which should be addressed is the effectiveness of the data you capture. Reveal, and ...

Simple Way To ReduceFraud

The Recovery Board should look to leverage cutting edge tools that provide "Non-Obvious Relationshiop" capabiltiies designed specifically for reducing fraud and waste — ...

Cloud, Web 2.0 and Identity Management

Cloud Computing is an attractive way to use software in support of the government’s mission. As a topic in IT circles, it certainly gets a lot of ink and with the promise of lowering ...

What’s in a name?

I spent a little time today tinkering with the PHP code for my photography pages. I managed to get the photographs from within Gallery displaying in the look and feel of my site. This ...

Cold relief

There’s something relaxing about watching a blizzard outside your window as you sit snug and warm in the comfort of your apartment. Edmonton is still in the throes of a bizarre weather ...

From the Pope to your Pepys

R.I.P – a 20 gig hard drive, only 2 years old. I can think of better ways to spend my weekend than troubleshooting dead hardware (although I am at least partially consoled by ...

Banned Book Cafe

I’m off to the Banned Book Cafe. Will report back on the event when I return. So Saddam Hussein wants to challenge George Bush to a debate. Saddam is not exactly a standup leader ...

I am at two with nature

Today was a complete blur, which upon some reflection, seems now to have consisted of nothing more than fuzzy, fleeting memories and recollections of bottomless email inboxes, mountains ...

WordPress Print Plugin

Having at one time been labeled a “loser” in Walt Crawford’s article on the printability of blog postings (a point well deserved ), I thought it worthwhile to install the WP ...