Wednesday, January 21, 2009

This is the Modern World

The govdocs community is all in a tizzy at the moment, at a change that happened while we were all watching Barack Hussein Obama become the President of the United States of America: the switchover at www.whitehouse.gov. While some of us may be wondering if this switch happened immediately at 12:01pm on 1/20/2009, others are wondering how the Bush website will be preserved for posterity. Normally the task of the National Archives, this time around, we're going to be thinking of "archiving" in a whole new way.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Everywhere you go, always take the weather*

The National Weather Service (part of the great NOAA umbrella) has provided us with Inaugural weather of the ages. Will next week's events be likened to Reagan's 1985 swearing in, the coldest in history (7 degrees!!), or will there be gridlock a la Kennedy's 1961 snowstorm that caused a massive traffic jam?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

One last directive...

Typical of administrations as they leave the White House, the Bush administration has relased a directive for just how we should deal with Arctic Terrorists. That's right-- the Arctic region of These United States is vulnerable to more than just ice. Released on January 9th the National Security Presidential Directive and Homeland Security Directive will establish a policy that-- at least for the next week-- will be how the United States will deal with threats to the areas visible from the Russian border.