T-mobile redeems itself
I had a follow-on call from the President's office at T-mobile today. They sorted out a way to get us G1 phones to try on our business account. They are shipping them at a discounted rate, and sending a few extra sim cards (as I lost mine) for…
Jungledisk acquired by Rackspace
Rackspace today announced a series of cloud computing initiatives including storage (in competition with Amazon S3). Great news. Competition is good. They also announced they acquired Jungledisk, which is the tool I use to access my S3 account.…
Open Source intelligence, as in open source labor and sources
Another good article on Gray Goose in the Washington Post.
Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (book review)
Will terrorists go nuclear? That is the essential questioned posed by counterterrorism expert Brian Jenkins in a book of the…
Love this video
I still show this video in my class every semester at Georgetown. Nice to see it digitized: Solar Sunrise: Dawn of a New Threat
Mark Cuban nails it
This is exactly my frustration with the current market crisis we are currently going through. Those that facilitated the crisis with irresponsible risky behavior are free of any sort of financial risk. It is all reward, no risk at the leadership…
Apple for the win
2.1 update is a major improvement for me. My 10 hour backup was reduced to 2 minutes. I envy my friend Eric who will only ever know an iPhone with 2.1.
Apple's free pass?
I'm a big fan of Apple. Anyone that reads this blog is certainly aware of that fact. However, I can't believe that Apple is getting a free pass in the media over all the iPhone issues users are encountering. For example, on my iPhone: A backup…
Gray Goose...not the vodka
Lots of interesting online press about this project I am participating in: The online posse to unmask Russia's hackers is ready to ride. Two weeks back, we linked to an open source effort by IntelFusion's Jeff Carr to figure out who, exactly,…
Think Tanks 2.0?
I've been thinking a lot about Mike Tanji's Think Tank 2.0 concept that he has been pitching over at Haft of the Spear. Couple that with the discussion on tools on Mike's blog, but also on Bob Gourley's CTO Vision and I was struck with a key…