Daniel Gaytan http://www.danielgaytan.com Just the life of another Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:27:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 2006-2007 spidermon@locomachine.com (Daniel Gaytan) spidermon@locomachine.com (Daniel Gaytan) danielgaytancategory 1440 http://www.danielgaytan.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Daniel Gaytan http://www.danielgaytan.com 144 144 Daniel Gaytan itunes ipod locomachine locomon, locomachine, daniel gaytan Daniel Gaytan Daniel Gaytan spidermon@locomachine.com no no Palooka Baby Clothing Line by Anna Gaytan http://www.danielgaytan.com/palooka-baby-clothing-line-by-anna-gaytan http://www.danielgaytan.com/palooka-baby-clothing-line-by-anna-gaytan#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:30:01 +0000 admin http://www.danielgaytan.com/?p=366

Palooka Baby Clothing Line

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Audit: State computer project costs 7 times more than estimate

By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Sept. 17, 2009 11:38 a.m.

Madison — An effort to consolidate state computer servers has cost seven times as much as originally estimated, even though the project is far from over.


Consolidating servers so far has cost $90.9 million, far above the original estimate of $12.8 million, according to a sweeping report Thursday by the Legislative Audit Bureau. The project is supposed to wrap up next summer.

The computer project is part of a broad effort to streamline state government launched by Gov. Jim Doyle in March 2005 that has often come up short.

Under one provision of the Accountability, Consolidation and Efficiency, or ACE, program, the state was to sell $40 million worth of land and buildings over four years but actually shed only $9.6 million in property.

“We just don’t have the money and to waste this much money is just unbelievable,” said Sen. Rob Cowles (R-Green Bay), a member of the Joint Audit Committee who requested the audit. “This thing was depicted in a political way with totally unrealistic expectations.”

Deputy Administration Secretary Dan Schooff said the state has addressed problems with the server consolidation after a 2007 audit first highlighted problems. He also said the administration has identified almost twice as much in savings from new purchasing contractors than auditors found.
The effort was “less successful than we hoped, but there was success,” Schooff said.
The ACE program was to save $200 million over four years by selling the excess land, merging and improving computer systems, and centralizing purchasing and human resources functions. But auditors could not say whether the ACE initiative has saved cash or cost taxpayers money, though they provided a litany of numbers that highlighted costly problems with the effort.

The server consolidation and two other troubled computer projects have cost $113.5 million so far. One project was completed, but only after facing cost overruns; the third project was put on hold after $9.1 million was spent.

The state also spent $15.2 million on four consultants who advised the state on how to make government more efficient. Those contract costs offset any savings the state may have realized, auditors noted.

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Writing is only as good as the things you write about.  And as all causes are, relevancy is only relevant as long as you stay focused on the ultimate objective.  Coming together and establishing a future happiness together is a tremendous objective for all.  Nelson MandelaThere are many hurdles and boundaries to jump over while pursuing this objective, absolutely, and that’s what many of us face.  But ironically, that’s the beauty of life.

The best ways to succeed in crossing these hurdles of life is to understand them, and not to make them worse by cursing, blaming and/or hurting them worse.  Plant and grow things together, sow from life that which you want, develop a mind and body that evolves constantly and keeps you happy and in shape physically and metaphysically.  And always keep your mind focused on learning new things.  Education is the key to everything and everyone loves learning new things, that is the beauty of being a teacher and student, father and son, a line and a circle.

I never talk about heroes, but there is one person that I am extremely proud of.  His name is Nelson Mandela.  Nelson Mandela was put in jail for 27 years. He was put in jail for terrorism to the white “Afrikaner” Government of South Africa.  Afrikaner’s knew that South Africa was majority Black, but its social, political and economic infrastructure was kept only for Whites.  A One-Person One-Vote Democracy would have changed it all, but Afrikaner’s kept it the same by violently repressing Blacks through a system of Apartheid.  For 27 years this great man was confined to isolation at Robben island.  When released, his leadership was a symbol for his people that change had indeed come.  But he did not seek revenge as many had called, instead he chose the path of reconciliation and healed the wounds of its people and its nation by uniting them.

Civil war was NEVER an option for him, living together in peace was the most important, and for me, that is the true objective of life.

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Computer information technology. It is growing. The networks, the speed, the relative ease to log in remotely to your favorite type of connectivity. Web interfaces are cool, iPhones are cool, even multimedia is changing in leaps and bounds. Where did it all start?  Click…

Here:

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erect-man

In this episode of Star Trek from the 60′s, the Oracle is asked several questions by the ship’s crew:

  1. What is knowledge, ability and skill, and how would you use this to help advance Human kind?

  2. What areas would benefit the most from the technology you are describing?


  3. I know you’ve already explained the streaming field of time that we’re in, how you use it to travel all eternity, to arrive at the now, at the sense of that which you are now in, which for us, as temporal beings, I’m sure translates quite differently from you, as a non-temporal being, but how specifically can you enhance our learning systems to get back to where I’m from?


  4. I’m just curious how all this digital know-how can be applied because in addition to supporting the paperless initiative, all the progress we make internally in a digital and virtual  work environments, could this be expanded to our partners in education, the high schools etc.?


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Charlie holding a chicken from Emmet’s ranchito.

photo posted from my iPhone

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