A Post on Blogging

It was inevitable, but here it is: a blog post on blogging.
When I tell people I blog, I get fewer and fewer blank stares. Lots of people ask for my address, and a few rant about how “every idiot has a blog, they are a plague.” But who’s blogging, and why? [...]

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Update on How Homeland Security Fails Us on Cyber-Security

This is a follow-on to my post below “Will We Fiddle while the Internet Burns?“. Two more events go to show how the Department of Homeland Security continues to miss the boat on anything related to securing our networks against attack by either foreigners or home-landers:
First, DHS has now published its National Infrastructure Protection [...]

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The Hopelessness of Finding Terrorists through Eavesdropping

People in the Administration have been working feverishly of late to make the case that grossly intrusive and unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens is the only way to Unearth Terrorists and Save Civilization. Supposedly the data mining techniques developed by banks and credit card companies could be harnessed to process all the data in [...]

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Net Neutrality Really Matters

If any of you got to listen to Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska trying to explain “net neutrality” a few weeks ago, you would understand why I get so nervous when Congress tries to stick their oars into the Internet soup. If you didn’t, listen to this audio clip, he is completely rambling and almost [...]

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A Word in Defense of CEOs

CEO-bashing is in favor these days, especially against the greedy ones that feel that no salary and benefit package is too rich for them regardless of their company’s performance. I willingly join that bashing, don’t mistake me. But there are CEOs who are worth their pay, and you only have to look at [...]

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