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Entries from August 2010

Wikipedia Books

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Wikipedia now allows you to gather articles into a book. You can download the book as a PDF or actually have a printer make you a hardcopy of you book. For several years now, Wikipedia has allowed printing articles. The printed pages looked good and were easy to read. Recently, Wikipedia has […]

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Tags: Technology · Wikipedia

Google Optical Character Recognition

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Google has an OCR program that works with Google Docs. I found a new feature in Google Docs this morning. Google now has an online optical character recognition (OCR) service. This is some type of experiment or Beta test or something. You go to a strange URL: http://googlecodesamples.com/docs/php/ocr.php . When you first go […]

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Tags: Technology

Things I Noticed in Louisiana

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I spent 19-26 August in Louisiana visiting family. Here are some of the things I noticed. Cars broken down on the side of the road – many of them. The New Orleans Airport: (1) small and unused for a city that depends on tourism, and (2) as inefficient and slow as ever. […]

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Tags: Culture · Family · Vacation

Things every house should have

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Staying in other people’s houses shows what I miss from my own. I am in Louisiana for a week visiting with family. There are items that I have in my house in Reston that are not in the houses I am staying. I understand that these are personal preferences, and that everyone […]

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Tags: Adapting · Family

The iPad – part 0.4 – Displaying Web Content

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips New display apps are coming to the iPad. I am now using Flipboard (for Facebook and Twitter display) and Discover (for Wikipedia display). They both work well are are worth using. Several months into the iPad, and better applications come along. Two of the recent ones that I am using basically take […]

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Tags: iPad · Technology

The iPad – part 0.3 – Handwriting Software

August 16th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I finally have a handwriting program on the iPad – WritePad from PhatWare. It works fine, but isn’t integrated into all the iPad apps. Several months into the iPad and I finally have a handwriting program. I am using WritePad from PhatWare. It works just fine. I find that I can write […]

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Tags: iPad · Technology · Writing

One Reason for Government Dysfunction

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Most government agencies are dysfunctional. There are simple reasons. One reason is that the path to promotion lies in spending money, not bringing value per cost. Try to understand how people “get ahead” working inside a government agency. To make more money, you are promoted to a higher grade. I worked in […]

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Tags: Culture · Employment · Government · Management

Regulator to the Regulated – the Revolving Door

August 9th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Government employees retire and go to work for companies that the government is supposed to regulate and hire and such. This is a revolving door. Is it bad? This story from the past week discusses how Telcos hired retired government employees to help them influence how the FCC (current government employees) regulates […]

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Tags: Employment · Government

Grand Canyon Rafting – 30 So How was It?

August 7th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips From June 28th through July 3rd, I had the privilege of being on a raft on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. This was part of a family trip “for the guys.” On a trip put together by my father-in-law Allan, his two sons, me (a son in law), my three […]

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Grand Canyon Rafting – 29 Another Bench

August 6th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips From June 28th through July 3rd, I had the privilege of being on a raft on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. This was part of a family trip “for the guys.” On a trip put together by my father-in-law Allan, his two sons, me (a son in law), my three […]

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Tags: Grand Canyon