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re: The National Christmas Tree lighting lottery now open

alvisvines — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:30:11 GMT

dragons are real

re: 17 'Nay' votes as House congratulates N.Y. Yankees on World Series

taxpayer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:11:50 GMT

Whereas, our elected officials should be working to solve problems, I resolve to vote the person who wrote this ridiculous resolution out of office in the next election. Please tell us who......

re: OPM chief proposes bold reform to federal hiring

Steve — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:56:17 GMT

The biggest issue is how to measure performance. With thousands of different GS employee series, each one has a different goal, often different at different positions. For instance, measuring performance of a GS-510 (Accountant) would be a lot different than GS-511 (Auditor). Each org would have to set their goals and standards, which seems daunting and open for abuse. It's not so much the system is broken, but the hiring process to get good people INTO the system must first be fixed. People apply for a government job much in the same way they did 25-50 years ago. Not to mention the time it takes to bring someone in, in part due to waiting for OPM's approval on salaries.

re: White House pushes open identity initiative at Gov 2.0

SEO — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:50:33 GMT

I believe OpenID will continue to be the most convenient and trustworthy open identity standard on the Web. Open standards create a better Internet for everyone, and the U.S. government's adoption of OpenID is a huge endorsement of OpenID and a big step forward for open standards.

re: Recovery.gov revamped with an unexpected helper: SharePoint

Nicholas Holland — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:39:55 GMT

As the owner of an agency, www.centresource.com, we are constantly evaluating different platforms. Since we have experience with both Drupal and Sharepoint, I was excited to see your article.

However, I became less excited when I loaded the Recovery site in Firefox 3.5.5 and saw that the navigation layout was broken.

The irony is that Sharepoint sites, in our experience, don't always play nice with any other browser than IE and it looks like its true again.

When 20%+ of the US is using something other than IE, I'd rather use solutions that don't cause problems for 1 out of 5 users (even higher if you evaluate 'power users').

Regardless, the point of the story is that Drupal couldn't get it done either - thus everything is a trade off :)

One curious question: $18MM contract and it was completed in 11 weeks! Holy hell, that's an amazing rake for such a short period of time. Sure/sure, I know their is maintenance - but wow!

re: Stimulus performing miracles on jobs numbers

beverlyle — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:22:06 GMT

Legal Assistants are in high demand. Earn your degree online and become paralegal

re: Stimulus performing miracles on jobs numbers

leonahope — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:16:25 GMT

Medical coding is a fast growing field today. Find a local school to get a degree in medical coding

re: 15 Halloween Costume Ideas for the Politically-Minded

Booth Brennan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:05:34 GMT

LOL

I guess the #1 - Meghan McCain custome will be the interesting one for me...

re: Recovery.gov revamped with an unexpected helper: SharePoint

Kanwal Khipple — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:18:29 GMT

They have done a great job not only on the architecture of the site but as well as the design. Kudos to the architect(s), developers and designers!

re: Controversy brews over Maryland state song

James — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:33:20 GMT

I've had about all I can stand of people trying to change history in the name of political correctness. Leave it the way it is. That is history. Most people these days don't quite get it. The reason that we learn history in school is to avoid making the same mistakes that were made in the past. In Florida the Confederate Battle Flag was banned in a Veterans Day Parade. Gongress classifies Confederate Veterans as American Veterans and therefore should be able to fly their flag with pride in Veterans Day Parades. But, lo and behold the NAACP if offended(again) go figure. This crap has got to stop, these people are destroying my heritage and history so as not to offend anyone. Sometimes a good slap in the face is the best way to wake someone up.