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

According to ArmsControl.org --in 1994, we reached a historic "agreed framework" with North Korea to "freeze operation and ...

There was a wonderful interview in the Washington Post with leadership expert, Bob Rosen.  One of the things that Rosen says is that ...

Okay folks, this is great.  I want to see movie's like this for the all Bible's stories.  Applying the technology and special e...

Two reflections from this week: 1. Listen to understand: I heard a colleague talk about the importance of listening. There wasn't r...

I took my daughter for a flu shot last evening.  We went through the typical drawn-out paperwork and long wait to get something so r...

Important developments going on with Iranian Nuclear Crisis... According to the Jerusalem Post , Israeli Prime Minister Netany...

I remember as a kid, my grandfather lived down the block from us on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.  He was old and not in the best of ...

The real cloud computing is not where we are today. Utilizing infrastructure and apps on demand is only the beginning.  What IBM has e...

Please see a new article by Andy Blumenthal at Government Technology .  We "need to learn ever new technology skills and simult...

So my youngest daughter is taking her SAT's. Where did the years go? As a parent, what's my role in helping her prepare? Wit...

So there is big backlash against employee performance reviews.  Bloomberg BusinessWeek declares the annual performance review to be ...

I visit the nursing home pretty often to see my mom who is there.  While I try to focus on my mom and her needs, I do notice other pat...

I read with great interest this week in BBC about 2 mysterious barges off the East and West coasts of the U.S. One barge is by San Fran...

This week was the 34-year anniversary since the Iran Hostage Crisis (which started on November 4, 1979) 52 Americans were held hostage f...

This is an amazing video. It is about the life of Angelo and Jennifer Merendino. Initially, they a lived a fairy tale life, until she w...

We've all drunk the Kool-Aid and believe in using the cloud. And with almost 1 million active apps alone in the Apple Store it is n...

Wow, I really love this graphic. The top are our plans, along with our hopes and dreams that we get to where we want to, in a basically ...

One of the scariest things for many people is not being with other people.  I don't mean intentionally not being with others--taking...

This was one for the books... They put up a sign at the pool: "Locker rooms will be switched." I asked the attendant, sort o...

While a mitzvah (Biblical commandment) to eat Matzah on Passover... With all due respect, during the rest of the year, they can't...

I saw the movie " 12 Years A Slave ." I have seen other movies on slavery, such as  Amistad  and  Glory , but none were as pot...

On the Metro in Washington, D.C. there is a sign that warns people about sexual harassment.  In the crowded rush hour trains, people ...

G-d, I remember as a kid in school having to memorize everything for every class--that was the humdrum life for a schoolchild. Vocabular...

I've always found it a little strange when the doctor (or nurse) asks you, "On a scale of 0 to 10, how much pain are you in?...

I took this picture today in the nursing home.  It hangs over the memorial of names for people that have passed.  The saying as transl...

On the Street in Washington, D.C., there is this circular sign on the ground. It says: "Look up! Watch where you are walking."...