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RAIN 01/13: Weekend Update 01/07/02



There are 10 stories in this posting.

Billings Gazette 01/07/02
Creative archivist inspired daughter to start $300 million company
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display=content/local/kanning.inc

by James Hagengruber
Ada Mayme Kanning, the inspiration behind the $300-million Creative Memories company, died early Sunday morning at her home in Billings. The 64-year-old Plentywood native had cancer.
Since the 1940s, Kanning chronicled the milestones of her life and the life of her family using elaborately detailed scrapbooks.



CBC News 01/07/02
Web genealogy site a crashing success
http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2002/01/06/webcensus_020106

WINNIPEG - Some Canadians are discovering new branches of their family trees with an overseas Internet service and a lot of patience.
This month, Britain released its entire 1901 national census online - the first country to put a complete record of this kind on the Web.



Chicago Tribune 01/07/02
Fingerprint scanner provides a digital way to log on to PC
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0201070009jan07.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed

by D. Ian Hopper
AP
When my wife first saw it, she declared it was a silly little gadget designed for the lazy. Now she uses it all the time.
I can't think of a better endorsement for DigitalPersona's U.are.U Personal, a fingerprint scanner for Windows XP.



Computerworld 01/07/02
XML replacement for paper reports lacks backing
http://www.computerworld.com.au/IDG2.NSF/cw_AllHeadlines/17E2DC4E5060B46FCA256B3900772459?OpenDocument

by Eugene Grygo
A version of XML aimed at replacing paper-based financial reports is gaining some ground in the financial services industry, but the effort needs greater backing from major software vendors, said industry observers.



Dodge City Daily Globe 01/07/02
Attorney General: Commissioner's e-mails not necessarily public records
http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/010402/sta_privateemail.shtml

AP
HAYS -- E-mail messages between city commissioners that are sent or stored on private computers are not public records, even if they deal with city business, the state attorney general's office said Thursday.
''If a specific e-mail communication is not made, maintained or kept by the city, but rather is exclusively made, maintained or kept only by the individual city commission members, it is not a public record,'' said an opinion by Assistant Attorney General Theresa Marcel Nuckolls.



San Francisco Chronicle 01/06/02
Editorial: On the public's right to know
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/06/ED125108.DTL

THE PRESIDENT DIDN't ask the networks for television time. The attorney general didn't hold a press conference. The media didn't report any dramatic change in governmental policy. As a result, most Americans had no idea that one of their most precious freedoms disappeared on Oct. 12.



Federal Computer Week 01/07/02
Building for the future
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0107/cov-build-01-07-02.asp

by John Zyskowski
At least one federal chief information officer has been known to quip that on any given day, his department violates the spirit, if not the letter, of any of several laws designed to make government work better.
Among the more frequently tread-upon measures, the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 calls on agencies to get smarter about their information technology spending by developing what's known as an enterprise architecture (EA) plan.



Federal Computer Week 01/07/02
Customs accelerates disaster planning
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0107/news-custom-01-07-02.asp

by Judi Hasson
The U.S. Customs Service is close to awarding a contract to set up two backup facilities where it can access its computer systems and databases in the wake of a disaster or terrorist attack.
The disaster recovery and data replication plan was on the drawing boards before the Sept. 11 attacks, but now Customs officials are working to get the project under way as soon as possible.



Federal Computer Week 12/24/01
Damaged documents revived online
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/1217/web-flood-12-24-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
In the spring of 1997, Grand Forks, N.D., was hit by a devastating flood that covered 90 percent of the area, displaced 50,000 people and damaged thousands of county property documents.
Now, the North Dakota county soon will test the waters with a new Web-based service that allows users to access those documents with a flat monthly subscription fee.



Federal Computer Week 01/07/02
Interior unplugged
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0107/news-doi-01-07-02.asp

by Graeme Browning
A month after a federal judge in a long-running lawsuit ordered the Interior Department to disconnect computers from the Internet, agency employees are still unplugged.
They are filling out timesheets by hand instead of electronically and communicating the old-fashioned way -- via telephone, fax and the U.S. Postal Service -- because they still can't access e-mail.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va