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Jan 28, 2010

PWCrypt is Now at Bitbucket

As part of my plan to rescue data from old CVS repositories, PWCrypt is now available at Bitbucket. PWCrypt provides command line access to the Unix crypt library function. This program and…

Jan 27, 2010

Policy Entrepreneurship at the Dorr Foundation

Policy Entrepreneurship at the Dorr Foundation from James Howard In 2008, I gave this presentation to the University of Baltimore course on nonprofit management about how the Dorr Foundation's research led to…

Jan 15, 2010

Privatizing BWI

Dennis Lane blogs about the possible privatization of BWI airport and suggests this doesn't make sense since the airport generates positive revenue for the State of Maryland. This isn't quite true. The…

Dec 24, 2009

Why I am howardjp

A few weeks ago, someone asked on Facebook why my username is howardjp. Off to the left on this blog, you will see links to my accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, and…

Dec 16, 2009

Source Code for LX, a Link Shortener

Last August, I began work on a link shortening service as a me-too kind of project. In my case, I wanted to provide custom domains, so that, for instance, The Washington Post…

Dec 10, 2009

More Old Code at GitHub

I have recovered from an old Iomega Zip disk a few more programs I wrote in the 1997-1998 time frame which may be of some interest: daemon Daemon was originally written for…

Nov 25, 2009

FreeGrep is now at GitHub

I have been learning to use Git, the distributed version control system. I am more than a bit familiar with both CVS and Subversion, and finding Git to be interesting and capable…

Sep 30, 2009

The Financial Advisory Committee has Recommenced

Last night, the Columbia Association’s Financial Advisory Committee held its first meeting of the term and we introduced three new members. Those members have a diverse background and strenghen our expertise in…

Jul 15, 2009

The MTA and Underprovision of Services

As everyone who reads my Twitter knows, I ride the Maryland Transit Administration’s 995 page back and forth from Columbia to DC four days a week. This morning, the bus left Brokenland…

Jul 5, 2009

The Palin Resignation

I watched Donna Brazile on CNN Friday talk about how Palin's resignation is the best thing she can do to prepare for a 2012 presidential campaign. This is, of course, completely false.…