Feb 20, 2015
Somedays, You Get Lucky
This happened to me a few months ago. text [Event "USA/S47209 (USA)"] [Site "ICCF"] [Date "2014.10.27"] [Round "-"] [White "Sullivan, Terry"] [Black "Howard, James"] [Result "0-1"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Nxe5 Qg5…
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Feb 10, 2015
I lost and my rating went up?
I started playing correspondence chess on the ICCF server's last summer and as you can see from this my rating, I am not that good. This is especially embarrassing given the fact…
Feb 9, 2015
Public Financial Management, Week 3
:::figure{src="/assets/img/news/4249886990 107e92c466 b.webp" alt="According to this, all decisions are supposed to be made in triplicate (Mr.TinDC / Flickr)" align="center" width="100"} According to this, all decisions are supposed to be made in triplicate…
Feb 2, 2015
Public Financial Management, Week 2
:::figure{src="/assets/img/news/7143277339 119f20d696 z.webp" alt="That's a nicer boardroom than we'll have (ShellVacationsHospitality / Flickr)" align="center" width="100"} That's a nicer boardroom than we'll have (ShellVacationsHospitality / Flickr) ::: I will be using this space,…
Jan 31, 2015
If I had a hammer...
From a mailing list: this project reminds me of the Defense department from decades ago when it paid 30,000 dollars for a common hammer... That never happened. The popular story is that…
Jan 29, 2015
Team Tracking with Trello
Trello can do some really neat things and Joel Spolsky said it's real ability is to manage lists of lists. I've seen two applications, lately, for manging individuals on a team using…
Jan 26, 2015
Syllabus for Public Financial Management, 2015
Despite the snowstorm wrecking havoc around the East Coast, the University of Baltimore is open and operating today. Today is the first day of class at UB and I will be teaching…
Jan 22, 2015
Managerial and Constitutional Values
Public Administration Review has an article by Daniel Feldman on the conflict between managerial and constitutional values amongst public servants: A synthesis of the work of two political and legal scholars, John…
Dec 2, 2014
Public Goods Often Aren't
It's that time of the year, as it always is, where we need a lesson on public goods. Public goods are a concept of economics defined by goods that are nonrivalrous) and…
Nov 30, 2014
Radiolab loses at statistics
Radiolab has a show on randomness (the embed feature doesn't work) where they discuss an experiment of flipping a coin 100 times. A string of tails appeared 7 times, which seems to…
Nov 26, 2014
Guess who (isn't) coming to dinner
Following the murder of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson, a recurring theme has been that whites do not understand. A typical example of the genre, from the Atlantic explains that our society…