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The Age of the Decider

November 4th, 2013 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips To understand a non-sensical decision, consider the age of the person deciding. It was the early 1990s (yes, I am that old), we were using Cray and other supercomputers (government program, so we had several), and we were interviewing your programmers. They all gasped to learn that we were programming in FORTRAN […]

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Tags: Choose · Geography · Government

Rural Broadband?

December 29th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips The Federal government is spending billions of dollars on rural broadband. I haven’t seen any results in my rural area of interest. Something is about to happen, but we won’t know if it is practical or affordable until after it happens. I am spending two weeks in Louisiana during the holidays. I […]

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Tags: Broadband · Excuses · Expectations · Geography · Government · Yot Dow

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October 21st, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips summary I live in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. To be more specific, I live in Reston, Virginia – a planned community. This is a good place to live, have a family, find good jobs, good medical care, good entertainment, and so on. Just Google for “Reston 50 best places” […]

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Tags: Culture · Family · Geography · Government · Grand Canyon