The Strategy to Secure Iraq Did Not Foresee a 2nd War. Many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration's miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum. By MICHAEL R. GORDON. [The New York Times > Home Page]
Author: Vince Kimball
Flex 1.5
Flex 1.5. Macromedia just officially announced Flex 1.5! Lots of very cool new features including really slick charting and graphing, an improved datagrid (which is something I'm personally very happy about), new components, easier skinning, big performance increases, and … the kicker … you can deploy your apps on Macromedia Central! Here's the goods on… Continue reading Flex 1.5
Jamestown.org
Jamestown.org does a wrap up of news on Shukrijumah. If he shifted to GG methods by paying gangs for infrastructure/market disruption in Mexico and the US (if he became a violence capitalist), we would be in much tougher position. Shukrijumah's connections with radioactive material is not fresh news. Early last year he was identified as… Continue reading Jamestown.org
With Few Suppliers of Flu Shots, Shortage Was Long in Making
With Few Suppliers of Flu Shots, Shortage Was Long in Making. Health experts had warned that the nation's system for vaccine supply and distribution was growing increasingly fragile. By DENISE GRADY. [The New York Times > Home Page]
profiles
The Boston Globe profiles Jack Meyer, the investment banker who's in charge of Harvard's $12 billion endowment. [Scripting News]
Keeping Network Outages Secret
Schneier on Security: Keeping Network Outages Secret. There's considerable confusion between the concept of secrecy and the concept of security, and it is causing a lot of bad security and some surprising political arguments. Secrecy is not the same as security, and most of the time secrecy contributes to a false feeling of security instead… Continue reading Keeping Network Outages Secret
Pity the Poor User
Pity the Poor User. I've begun reading Tracing Genres through Organizations by Clay Spinuzzi. I bought it because I think genre theory is potentially the most-important-yet-least-appreciated topic in information architecture. Clay approaches the issue from his background in rhetoric, and the practice of technical communication. Still, he spends his first chapter laying out a cogent… Continue reading Pity the Poor User
The US trade deficit was $54.04 billion in August. The two major elements driving this is the deficit with China: $15.39 billion and oil producers: $14.18 billion. A big
The US trade deficit was $54.04 billion in August. The two major elements driving this is the deficit with China: $15.39 billion and oil producers: $14.18 billion. A big storm is brewing. [John Robb's Weblog]
NYT
NYT. Eliot Spitzer is great. He is doing the work that the government should be doing: going after corruption. Our system isn't nearly the level and efficient playing field it should be. His latest attack is on massive bid rigging by the insurance industry. I concur with Philip Bobbit that the nation-state system is giving… Continue reading NYT
William Gibson
William Gibson on military foresight. He's right. Fourth generation warfare and Netwar were penned in the US (Global Guerrilla theory brings those older concepts to the next level based on natural paths of evolution in motion today). Unfortunately, our enemies read this theory and applied it. Our “leaders” didn't. [John Robb's Weblog]