Things Happened In Our Awesome Washington, DC During 2009

Here is the list of great things happened to our nation capital I remember. If we missed something, please send it to us and we make sure to add it to the list:

1. This guy finally left Washington for good

2. We got a new president or better say a Blackberry-addicted President His $800 billion stimulus package was stuffed with programs and grants to spur innovation and invigorate entrepreneurs.

3. We got a new Federal CIO and CTO to guide our technology policy: Virginia Tech Sec Aneesh Chopra and DC CIO Vivek Kundra. Vivek has been Mr. Transparency with projects like data.gov and recovery.gov that bring government spending out of the shadows, while Aneesh, has been guiding Obama’s policies in things like health care, energy independence, and education.


4. We got our first cyber czar Howard Schmidt to protect all that data falls

5. My Babe, Angie visited Washington, DC twice

6. We got Casey Coleman as our GSA CIO to create a cloud dashboard for the rest of the government to pick and choose cloud services at a tremendous cost savings over traditional hosting methods. Considering the questions over security, implementation, and architecture, not quite sure cloud computing is here to stay. I hope it does. Let’s see.

7. Many rallies were held in DC to support the Iranian green movement. The Iranian struggle for democracy has taken unprecedented turns since June 12th presidential election. Iranians have shown resilience and have pressed on their democratic demands on the face of continuous violence and escalating repression.

8. One of my favorite restaurant, Nando’s opened in Dupont Circle.

9. We got parade of tech royalty from Michael Dell, and Craig Newmark

10. Thank God! H1N1 did not even touch DC

11. Gay Marriage bill was signed by our Mayor Adrian Fenty to be finalized and signed by the congress in Jan 2010.

12. Awesome DC blog was launched

13. Healthcare Reform bill was passed by both by the Congress and Senate. To be finalized and signed by the President in one or two month

14. We got our record snow since March of 1994

15. AOL divorced from Time Warner , and then it went public in early December

16. The combination of low prices, reseller markets, the long tail effect, and the rise of internet literacy among the buying class forced one of our greatest retail store, Circuit City to shut down

Did I miss anything? let me know.