Posted January 21st, 2010 by Mike
OK, when I tell people I bought a police car, I always get the same question: “why?” Unless they’re on Facebook, since I documented the experience there. However, Facebook people always say “man…I thought you were joking!” So here’s why I did it. 16+ years of information technology work and management has finally impacted my [...]
Posted January 19th, 2010 by Mike
Here’s a great interview of Isaac Yeffet, a former head of security for Isreal’s airline. It’s some excellent commentary. My take: Security is a process, but it’s not a procedure. In the U.S. we try to package things into procedures instead of really addressing the problem in an organic and adaptable way. This is particularly [...]
Posted January 11th, 2010 by Mike
You have to laugh at these assurances of privacy as the Gubmint tries to explain to us that it’s ok take naked pictures of the population before they can get on an airplane. First of all, they tell us that the images “can’t be stored” as the news reports show video of the scans. Duh. [...]
Posted January 8th, 2010 by Mike
Until 5th grade, my school years were spent in Iowa. Iowa has a much different angle on snow than they do here at Alabama. It had to be pretty bad to cancel school….either snow or temperature. They did it, but it was not very common. I do remember one time they canceled school due to [...]