Grandpa Ham – Grandpa Can do IT!

• Finally completed the on-line #NIEM Practical Implementers Course. A difficult but interesting task. Waiting Capstone Exercise Eval. #
• Got word to day that The #NIEM capstone exercise was approved. So I guess I can say officially that I know a bit about NIEM. #
• You know you are old when business consultant in the $1000 suit turns out to be your youngest son's high school drinking buddy (true story) #

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• Love the term "self-inflicted denial of service attack" to describe some security policy. #ogi #
• Interfaces for using standards based exchange of emergency information. See http://www.disasterhelp.gov/disastermanagement/open #ogi #
• DM-OPEN is simple. Multiple emergency management messaging standards supported by a total of two interface functions. #ogi #
• Good enough is Good enough. (most of the time) #ogi #
• For a view that is in contradiction to OGI Conference view of data.gov go to: http://www.ijis.org/EDblog/ — #ogi #
• Me experience is that competition often means "Who has the overhead space to absorb the proposal wins the competition." Smalls must sub only #
• #NIEM based Substitution Groups and abstract Representation elements can be used to avoid concept duplication when adding outside content. #

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• OPEN Alert, Cell Cast Alert – TEST ALERT ONLY!! High Water on Bull Run Road #
• OPEN Alert, Alert – TEST ALERT ONLY!! High Water on Route 1 at Rappahannock River Bridge #
• OPEN Alert, Previstar Alert -TEST ALERT ONLY!! – High Water on Route 620 at Kellys Ford #
• RT @trevbhatt thinks it is a dishonor to billy may's memory that the new oxy clean commercials are narrated by a pleasant-voiced woman. #

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• For those with Bible study backgrounds: Reading the NIEM Naming and Design Rules is like reading Leviticus in the Old Testament. #
• @trevbhatt Worse than King James. Think of crossing of super geek data concepts with IRS tax law (like Leviticus mixes tax and life rules) in reply to trevbhatt #
• For those who may wonder based on previous tweets – I do think NIEM style IEPDs make a lot of sense. They actually make NIEM valuable. #
• Just completed the online coursework for the NIEM Practical Implementers Course. Good material. You need to know XML Schema well first. #
• The Capstone Exercise for NIEM appears to include an incomplete subset schema compared to what the instructions say. Makes it hard to do. #
• @NIEMExecDir My objective in taking the NIEM coursework and reading the entire NDR is to make EDXL/NIEM work together. – OASIS EM-TC founder in reply to NIEMExecDir #

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• Sitting in a Starbucks in Down town DC – waiting for a 1400 meeting to start. The drive home will be hell tonight. #

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• 5 hour rainstorm – no baseball – even though the week end was beautiful after wards. You would think they could fix the fields. but no…. #
• A tweeter asked "What is the opposite of time?" Answer: Time off. Time lasts forever. Time off is gone in a flash. #
• Working from the cafeteria at Walter Reed Hospital. Between Routine appointments. With today's cell broadband you can work anywhere..Darn!! #
• @Podkeyne Fresh live mussels and shrimp boiled in coconut milk with ginger, peppers, and mustard greens. in reply to Podkeyne #
• @Podkeyne they were alive when theyhit the coconut milk. in reply to Podkeyne #

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I wrote a poller for DM-OPEN that posts alerts received in DM-OPEN to the prototype Unified Incident Command and Decision Support System (UICDS).  This gives posters of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) alerts the option of using DM-OPEN as a mechanism for also posting to UICDS for use by systems connected to that capability.  Two successful demonstrations to date: a month or so ago at the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and today in McClean, Virginia for some folks from DHS.  We posted alerts from NC4’s E-Team, CellCast’s Eagle, MyStateUSA, and DMIS Tools (also a DM offering) to UICDS where the alerts were provided to to a UICDS RSS feed and plotted on maps using Alert Sense (where proper locations were identified in the input CAP message).

The message:  DM-OPEN can be a “connection multiplier” for its interoperability partners.  In this case a single connection yielded 4 new partners (and possibly many more in the future).

It is always nice to know that you web services are up and running strong.  Since Twitter is the current rage, I though I would see if it could actually be useful. I set up a new Twitter account, wrote a poller to DM-OPEN that pings it on a regular basis and sends me a direct message to my grandpaham Twitter account upon the first instance of a successful ping,  the first instance of a failure following a series of successful pings, and the first instance of a successful ping after one or more failures.  Failures do not happen often, but now I will be the first to know if they do. Cool.

• Harrisburg PA , quiet campground, son is coaching tomorrow, he’s 25 and I am still number one in his fan club #
• Harrisburg PA, quiet rainy campground. Was supposed to be baseball tournament. Hope they have lots of turfus(sp?). #

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• DMOPEN Alert1 test of a twitter headline extraction frim DM-OPEN #
• DMOPEN Alert2 test of a twitter headline extraction frim DM-OPEN #
• DMOPEN Alert3rd test of a twitter headline extraction frim DM-OPEN #
• DMOPEN Alert4th test of a twitter headline extraction frim DM-OPEN #
• DMOPEN Alert5th test of a twitter headline extraction frim DM-OPEN #
• DMOPEN AlertTweety Bird captured by Puddy Tat #
• DMOPEN Alert 6th test of a twitter headline extraction frim DM-OPEN #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 3.9 False Pass, AK – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.9 Jumla, Nepal – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.3 Mingaora, Pakistan – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.6 Namche Bazar, Nepal – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.9 Santo (Luganville), Vanuatu – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.5 Roatán, Islas de la Bahía, Honduras – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 5.1 Raba, Sumbawa, Indonesia – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 5.3 False Pass, AK – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.2 False Pass, AK – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.6 Patras, Greece – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.7 Patras, Greece – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 5.0 Vanimo, New Guinea, PNG – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 3.2 Higüey, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 5.6 NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 5.4 NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.9 Vanimo, New Guinea, PNG – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.5 Nikolski, AK – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.9 PORT-VILA, Vanuatu – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.8 Usulután, Usulután, El Salvador – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 5.1 PORT-VILA, Vanuatu – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 4.1 Ussuriysk, Russia – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 3.4 Settlement, Anegada, British Virgin Islands – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert EQ 5.3 Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas, Mexico – PRELIMINARY REPORT #
• DMOPEN Alert #
• Twitter says I Tweet to much, but does not process my Tweets. I think Some of the tweets may be using keywords so twitter gets confused. #
• atest 8th test of a twitter headline extraction from DM-OPEN #
• atest CellCast TestAlert to Twitter via DM-OPEN #
• atest MySteteUSA TestAlert to Twitter via DM-OPEN #
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• atest 9th test of a twitter headline extraction from DM-OPEN #
• Yes you can Tweet too much, unless they grant you special permission, there is a limit per hour. Not sure the exact amount though. #
• I exceeded the tweet limit yesterday experimenting with turning an earthquake feed into tweets. #
• atest ETEAM POSTED A TEST ALERT THROUGH DM-OPEN. TWITTERED FROM GRANDPAHAM AT 36000 FEET. #
• atest MyStateUSA posted a test alert through DM-OPEN. Twittered from grandpaham at 36000 feet. #
• atest CellCast posted a test alert through DM-OPEN. Twittered from grandpaham at 36000 feet. #
• Just passed in to Colorado. Bumby flight. But the internet is working well. #
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• atest DMIS Posted a test alert through DM-OPEN. Twittered from GrandPaham at 36000 #
• @Podkeyne Twitter has no knowledge of CAP it just wants under 140 character strings, but it does not want too many at once, I fear. in reply to Podkeyne #
• Riding Light Rail (1.75) to CalTrain (6.00) to BART (1.50) to get to SFO from Santa Clara. $9.25 vs $50 for a van trip or $120 for a taxi. #
• And the train is more fun too. But takes about 40 minutes longer. #

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