Nelson Jacobsen

Yep way back in 1995 I was at a conference called Internet 95 and this was the conference where SUN released JAVA.  Now, Talk about being in a fishbowl, the fact that everyone there was better connected then Kevin Bacon by virtue of the smallness of the Internetwork community at the time.  Consider that at the end of 1995 there where only 50,000 domain names registered.  There was also this wild service called Site of the Day and if your's  made it your site would gets the world's attention for at least a day and as long as you could string out some press or PR.   There I was at Internet 95 and I decided that it was so important that everyone not there get the news from the conference that I started a subdirectory on our corporate website Altavoz.com and then posted updates during the day  via a telnet session. Back then we had to go through quite a bit to get this done.  Starting with getting online.  From there going to your shell account ...

In front of Councilperson Mendelson Public Saftey Committee on February 23, 2010 both Former HSEMA directors Barbara Childs_Pair, and Peter LePort testified that in their opinion under the present administration the role of DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency has become a second tier outpost and that the Mayor himself needs to become more active. This testimony was covered in Report on PR 18-631at the Public Hearing for the current HSEMA Director. Their point was that we could have the best person for the job which they both said Milicent Williams will be and I agree as I testified on her behalf as well; However without the Mayor's involvement there is little any director can do. This should have been front page news. Yet is is buried and I will take it some are just hearing this for the first time. I will bet this blog that Mayor Fenty has more time in the Wilson Pool then he does in our Emergency Management HQ.  Think about this during the recent snow...