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Bruce Schneier’s latest article for Wired talks about disaster planning as an important part of the security process. Specifically, he’s talking about picking a disaster that has a reasonable likelihood of being mitigable. For example, it’s pointless for an individual or business to “plan” for a nuclear winter, but that might be exactly […]

I just got done watching the CNN - YouTube Democratic Debate and was blown away at how well the format worked. I think there are a lot of things about current American Politics that would disappoint the Founding Fathers, but this format for the debate certainly wouldn’t be one of them. The format […]

This could be bad, bad news. Glenn has been an outstanding offensive lineman for years for the Colts. He went to the Pro Bowl last year. He’s been there for Manning’s entire professional career. Although my friends and I have joked that he’s always good for at least one false start […]

I have commented before about the how cool Ben & Jerry’s is (pardon the pun), but it’s worth bringing up again because they are introducing a Simpsons brand of Ice Cream. The flavor will be called Duff & D’oh-nuts and it will only be available in Springfield, VT on their all-day movie premire celebration. […]

I am not sure if I have mentioned it before on this site, but Brian Krebs is a journalist at the Washington Post and maintains a blog called Security Fix. If you are not a security person and you only really care about computer security issues that would affect you as a generic computer […]

The Indianapolis Colts have signed Dwight Freeney to a record contract and not one that requires him to sing. The contract is 6 years for 72 million, including 30 million in signing bonuses. John Clayton reports that as a result he will only count 5.75 million against the salary cap the next two […]

Today is the 203rd anniversary of the Aaron Burr - Alexander Hamilton Duel. (Or is it the Alexander Hamilton - Aaron Burr Duel?) Either way, this duel is probably still the most famous in American history. I used to think as a kid that this was yet more reason to think that […]

Yesterday was Independence Day for America, which is quite possibly my favorite holiday. It always seems to sneak up on me though because summers seem to be bustling and pass by too quickly. However, it is the one holiday that I think we can celebrate without reservation. There are cookouts, fireworks, and […]

There’s an excellent article about Data Reuse on Wired by Bruce Schneier. In the article he talks about the American use of census data to populate Japanese-American internment camps. Of course, he very easily could have been talking about the German use of census data in the Holocaust, which was going on at […]

All good things come to an end. Even though I no longer live in Austin, I admit that I feel no small twang of sadness that the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown closed its doors. Perhaps that is a little melodramatic because they are simply changing locations, but this is the original. As the […]