At Amazon – Warehouse Deals

January 27, 2012

Amazon Warehouse Deals TV’s, electronics, books, food, clothes, camping and more…

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U.S. DOJ’s $356 million Integrated Network a flop

January 27, 2012

Federal law enforcement agencies attempted to integrate legacy, non-interoperable radios after 9/11 with “minimal success”: After 9/11, three federal law enforcement agencies planned a massive project to replace a mishmash of aging and obsolete radios used by thousands of federal agents. A decade and $356 [...]

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Aneesh Chopra, the White House’s first chief technology officer, leaving

January 27, 2012

Aneesh, former Virginia CIO, had a somewhat lower profile than his colleague, federal CIO Vivek Kundra, but by most accounts was a successful CTO for the feds. I did not know him as well as Vivek who was a regular guest at our U.S. GAO [...]

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At Amazon, Deal of the Day

January 26, 2012

Pioneer VSX-521-K 5.1 Home Theater Receiver only $138

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Amazon Deal of the Day

January 25, 2012

Schwinn 150 Upright Exercise Bike $300

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State Auditor Slams Hi Speed Rail Authority for improper IT contracting and no accounting system

January 24, 2012

The State Auditor’s Office just completed another review of the High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority), a followup to a previous report from April of 2010. In addition to the much heralded fact that the Authority’s financing plans are a shambles with only about 10% of the [...]

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Amazon: Today’s Deals in Electronics

January 24, 2012

Amazon: Today’s Deals in Electronics

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TechLeader.TV with Reggie Chappelle, CIO, California Highway Patrol, Jaunuary 25, 2012, 11:30 AM PT

January 23, 2012

Next Program with Reggie Chappelle Chief of the Information Management Division, and CIO of the California Highway Patrol Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Reggie Chappelle Chief, Information Management Division & CIO California Highway Patrol  TechLeader.TV will discuss the CHP $2 [...]

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Answer to California Economy and Budget Deficit?

January 23, 2012

Not with the current crowd in charge. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates California Monterey to have more than four times the technically recoverable oil of the North Dakota Bakken oil field. The Monterey/Santos oil field in California is estimated to four times the [...]

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Why iPhone et al can’t be manufactured in U.S.

January 23, 2012

Great article from NYT this weekend and carried in SacBee: Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas. Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked in February. Mr. Jobs’s [...]

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The Great State Pension Scam

January 23, 2012

Focus is on Minnesota, but certainly as article says applies to California as well. Five percent of state budget (my taxes) goes to pensions, and more if the unfunded $.5 to$1 Trillion retiree health benefit is included. If you are a current or former state [...]

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Amazon: Deal of the Day

January 23, 2012

Yamaha YHT-S400BL Home Theater System 59% Off Enjoy the Big Game with a Yamaha home theater system that provides the power of surround sound in a simple and compact design.

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At Amazon: Save up to 61% on the “Transformers Trilogy” on DVD and Blu-ray

January 21, 2012

Save up to 61% on the “Transformers Trilogy” on DVD and Blu-ray For a limited time get “Transformers,” “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” together in these DVD and Blu-ray packs. See how the battle unfolds as Sam Witwicky (Shia [...]

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Defense Dept. CIO Teri Takai Needs More Authority, Board Says

January 21, 2012

Prior to and frankly since California’s former CIO Teri Takai’s appointment to the Obama Administration, her role and responsibilities at the DOD have been a source of speculation. Stories of a strong working relationship with her initial boss Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, have given [...]

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For the New Year’s resolution

January 19, 2012

From Amazon: The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

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Anonymous takes down government, recording industry websites in retaliation for bust

January 19, 2012

Picked this up from Rough & Tumble this evening: Anonymous says it is in the process of staging its “largest attack ever” — more than 5,000 loosely associated hackers taking down websites belonging to government and recording industry organizations in response to Thursday’s shutdown of [...]

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Google named best place to work in America

January 19, 2012

It’s not the perks, it’s the culture for Google now 32,000 employees, so sayeth their executives. There’s no doubt that there are substantial perks to working at Google — ranging from the new 40,000 square-foot park that the company built for its employees at its [...]

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Amazon Deal of the Day

January 19, 2012

Lexar MicroSDHC 32 GB Class 10 Flash Memory Card with Reader for $39.99

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A Classic from SacBee’s Dan Walters from his Live Chat today after Gov. Brown State of the State on CapitolAlert

January 18, 2012

A question came up as to whether the part-time legislature ballot initiative was a good idea, and would it pass.  Dan responded with this classic line. [Italics mine] It’s like all the other one-shot nostrums for fixing governance in California – think term limits – [...]

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Governor’s State of the State Speech Today on Education Reform

January 18, 2012

In his State of the State speech this morning the Governor had some serious ideas about the need for wholesale overhaul of the state’s educational establishment: In his speech, the governor made it clear that he would continue his fight with the teachers’ unions over [...]

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