Archive for November 2008

Save Seven Lives – Be an Organ Donor

2008-11-20T21:07:25-05:00, 21:07

This is a somewhat out of context post for this site, but today is an out of context day.  I am sitting in the surgical waiting room and Walter Reed Hospital in DC while my wife of 33 years receives the kidney transplant she has been waiting for for 2 1/2 years.  We both thank God for this chance to extend her life and make it whole again.  Even more, we thank the donor, and the donor’s family, for having the courage and generosity to help others in their time of grief.   Donor’s who die with healthy organs can save seven lives: two kidneys, a heart, a lung, a pancreas, a liver and a small intestine.  So sign up.  I have.  It is a chance to live beyond life. And to gain the eternal gratitude of folks like me and the person I have loved for so many years.

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Open Platform for Emergency Networks

2008-11-09T07:01:35-05:00, 07:01

I have been working on the FEMA contract now for about a month. The Disaster Management team is a good team. The project has a real mission of service to those who put their life on the line for the American public every day. Of course it is a Federal program, meaning that it is difficult to coordinate and rife with bureaucratic impediments to immediate success. Of course, because it is a Federal Program, we team members can take a somewhat longer view. We can do a little more planning and actually define requirements before we are off into development land. Better planning versus more bureaucracy. It will be an interesting balance.

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