Before the “war on terror” America was well regarded. We actually had an advantage in the global economy — as a global superpower that had not abused our power (at least not too blatantly) we were by and large looked upon favorably. We had a big stick, and as long as we didn’t use it, [...]
Continue Reading...We need to give up some of our freedoms in order to keep democracy alive and preserve our safety.
Much to my dismay, some people actually believe this (as evidenced by a conversation I had recently, from whence I borrowed this quote). It doesn’t seem to matter that “giving up our freedom” is essentially at odds [...]
I imagine my plethora of loyal readers (that would be you, Frank) may have noticed the complete lack of any postings from mid-October to mid-December. So what happened? I was in India.
Thing is, I had planned on having a lot of time to write while I was there. It didn’t work out as planned — [...]
It’s true. And I should probably do something about it. $2,400 could buy a second generation High Definition TV or schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.
Continue Reading...Want to cut back on spam attacks at your weblog and web server? Check out mod_security, an Apache plugin. It protects against a range of attacks and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and real-time analysis with no changes to existing systems. It’s definitely worth taking a few minutes to install.
Continue Reading...Asimov wrote that “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” George W. Bush took us to war long before it was a “last resort.” I’ve got to wonder, then, what does this imply for us as a people, a nation that stands by and watches as the atrocities continue to pile up. But at [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve been meaning to write a piece on how I like my new MacBook Pro, now that I’ve taken the plunge and bought something based on Intel hardware. Today I finally got around to downloading the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, which is a universal binary build, and the experience gave me a little motivation [...]
Continue Reading...Just your typical wish list for the coming year, in no particular order. (Once again, my resolution list isn’t that interesting: Achieve two more ranks in Karate, which would bring me to 5th Kyu, and spend as much time at the dojo as possible).
The impeachment of George Bush (yep, still hoping).
A few democratic candidates that [...]
Continue Reading...As Bush continues to cover up the ugly truth about his “war on terror” (aka his “crusade for oil”) his misdirections and outright lies are getting more and more blatant. For instance, does anyone believe that he underestimated the war casualty count by a factor of 20?
Talk about a numbers game! On October 11 the [...]
I recently read The Decline Of Education In California by Sarah Knopp, a chapter in California Under Corporate Rule (Peter Miguel Camejo). As a treatise on the state of our education system it’s thought provoking but horribly dismaying. Education has been on a decline throughout the United States since the 1970’s and it’s not stopping. [...]
Continue Reading...I’m getting tired of discovering projects that focus on “quality assurance” as if its entire breadth where encompassed in simple regression testing conducted after a product is supposedly ready for release.
Managing software quality is not simply creating a test program during a late-phase testing period. In fact, addressing quality assurance in this way is too [...]
This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
