Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Alcoholics Anonymous is famous for their program to help people attain and maintain sobriety. With the latest addiction being everyt...

"The Federal Register is "the official daily publication of rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizati...

Sensors will soon be everywhere --waiting, watching, and working to capture information about you and the environment we inhabit. Every s...

Often it seems as if so much of our life is spent memorizing things and then trying to remember what we thought we memorized. It starts ...

This was a presentation I gave on Cloud Computing in February 2011 at the Technology Council of Maryland. Hope you Enjoy!

A new proposed method for determining Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) for people receiving Social Security and federal and military re...

Discovery Channel has a series called Future Weapons . This is part 1 from Israel and Richard (Mack) Mackowicz, a former Navy SEAL sh...

The first Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace is out (July 2011). Of course, like the plans that came before (e.g...

TaskRabbi t is a new way to get odd jobs done by simply posting them online for others to bid on and perform them. Browsing the list of ta...

Great job by the Silhouettes last night on America's Got Talent. An inspiring remembrance for upcoming 10-year anniversary of 9-11....

Here is an impressive video (actually part 1 of 2) introduction to Wolfram | Alpha by Stephen Wolfram. It is an " computational knowl...

I've always been interested in maps, geography, and geospatial information systems (GIS) . Coming across Greg's Cable Map --...

There is an amazing web site for creating, sharing, and exploring information visualizations (a.k.a. infographics)--it is called Visu...

Freedom of speech is one of our most precious rights. However, there are limits - times when the right to speak and publish comes up agai...

For those of you who are upset to the see the final Space Shuttle mission this week, we definitely have something to look forward to wi...

This week we watched with horror as a Texas baseball fan and firefighter fell to his death attempting to catch a ball hurtling into the stan...

I have a new article in P ublic CIO Magazine (June/July 2011) on the subject of our fascination with "extreme size" in technology...

For July 4th, we headed down to the D.C. Folk Life Festival today on the Washington Mall. The Peace Corps had a number of exhibits at th...

It is said that one of the key differences between leaders and staff is that leaders are supposed to spend significantly more time on rel...

Sometimes there is a moment that really captures the essence of being alive. I had that kind of moment watching this great band, Lucky Dub ...

What is with the iPhone and food? Yesterday, one of my dear wonderful relatives showed me a blog with a recipe and pictures for the ...

Having professionally been around the block a couple of times now over a 25 year career, I can say with some conviction that soft skil...

Mental Floss (July-August 2011) has an article on the awesome art of "Christo and Jeanne-Claude ." Their pieces are large, imposin...