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Daily Archives: February 12, 2004

Directory of Locations for Free WiFi Access

“The Wi-Fi-FreeSpot™ Directory is a listing of Wi-Fi locations that offer Free Wireless Internet Access – Wi-Fi – utilizing 802.11 technology. The locations listed…are business locations like cafes, restaurants, coffeeshops, hotels, airports, downtown business districts, malls, retail stores, etc.” [Link via Ex Libris] Continue Reading

GAO Reports Better IT Management Needed by Agencies

From GovExec.com: “Federal agencies generally have active plans for information technology but do not do a good enough job of determining whether they have met their goals, according to a General Accounting Office (GAO) report released Wednesday.” Information Technology Management: Governmentwide Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Can Be Further Improved. GAO-04-49, January 12.… Continue Reading

9/11 Panel to Request Testimony From Bush, Clinton and Their VPs

AP reported this afternoon that the Chair of the 9/11 Commission, former governor of New Jersey Thomas H. Kean plans to request that President Bush, former President Clinton, Vice President Cheney and former Vice President Gore provide public testimony concerning their knowledge of intelligence data warning about the 9/11 attacks. Kean acknowledged that such testimony… Continue Reading

Executive Order on WMDs

From the Federal Register, February 11, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 28), Presidential Documents, Page 6899: Executive Order 13328–Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction See also President Announces Members of WMD Commission See also this New York Review of Books article, Now They Tell Usby Michael Massing: “The… Continue Reading

Website Offers Range of Links to Campaign News, Polling and Commentary

Looking for more campaign facts, stats and talk? Try RealClearPolitics, a site that each day filters and links to selected political opinion columns (including the WSJ, Washington Times, New York Times and Boston Globe), editorials, candidate specific news articles, state and national polls, Congressional and Presidential approval ratings, commentary by the site’s authors, and links… Continue Reading