I have to admit that I really liked The Apprentice (that's a reversal off my initial impression). Unfortunately, it really fell short recently when it used interviews as a filter. In short, the interview process clearly selected the wrong people (the two of the four that underperformed throughout the show). I thought the whole point of the… Continue reading The Apprentice
Author: Vince Kimball
NYT
NYT. Wow. The White House is looking at a director of national intelligence… The reason this is a hot issue: intelligence is at the heart of the war on terrorism. It stands on its head the old formula for addressing threats which was 10% intelligence and 90% operations. Operational dominance pervades all aspects of the… Continue reading NYT
Zinni
Zinni on the offensive: For years Zinni said he cautioned U.S. officials that an Iraq without Saddam Hussein would likely be more dangerous to U.S. interests than one with him because of the ethnic and religious clashes that would be unleashed. “I think that some heads should roll over Iraq,” Zinni said. “I think the… Continue reading Zinni
Reuters
Reuters: Global energy usage to jump 54% by 2025. Expected oil need to jump from ~81 m barrels a day to 121 m barrels. My question: where are we going to get that oil given the sharp drop in production from the aging super giant fields? One answer: OPEC is expected to be the major… Continue reading Reuters
British Library Treasures Online
British Library Treasures Online. The British Library's “Turning the Pages” touch screen system is now online (mousing, not touching though). You can “turn” pages of these rare works online at the Turning the Pages site. Works posted so far include DaVinci's notebook, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Sultan Baybars' Qur'an, and the Sherborne Missal. The page images… Continue reading British Library Treasures Online
A9
A9. Once upon a time there was a tiny little company named Amazon.com. Well, this little company took Google results, Amazon results, and Alexa results and smushed them all together and called it A9…. You are welcomed with a nice basic search box. The results screen defaults to web results. A cool feature is if… Continue reading A9
It's the blue book!
It's the blue book!. Ever had a patron scream at you, “It's the blue book about marketing! Don't you know which one I'm talking about?” Or some variation of that–the thin red book about dinosaurs, the yellow book with green stripes about building arbors, on and on and on. The New England School of Law… Continue reading It's the blue book!
Securitydocs.com: The Information security library for the infosec pro
Securitydocs.com: The Information security library for the infosec pro. SecurityDocs.com is a directory of information security articles, white papers, and other documents that information security professionals find useful. The value of SecurityDocs is that it collects white paper meta data from other popular security sources. This allows InfoSec professionals to browse by category or search… Continue reading Securitydocs.com: The Information security library for the infosec pro
Microsoft has PR Focus?.
Some people are not happy with the way Microsoft is approaching security with this Tuesday's patch releases
Microsoft has PR Focus?. Some people are not happy with the way Microsoft is approaching security with this Tuesday's patch releases. Note that some of the vulnerabilities covered in the patches were identified by third parties as early as last September: However, some security researchers took the software giant to task for waiting to release… Continue reading Microsoft has PR Focus?.
Some people are not happy with the way Microsoft is approaching security with this Tuesday's patch releases
Two generals on
Two generals on NPR's Morning Edition agree that the entire US military is already deployed in Iraq. They say it's the smallest US military since 1939. We still don't have a good explanation for why we're there. The generals agree we could declare victory. We came looking for WMDs. None found. Mission accomplished. [Scripting News]