It was called “Operation Vengence”.
He had ordered the deaths of thousands of Americans using airplanes, and alerted the average American that a war of civilizations was now endangering them.
Therefore, the president used secret intelligence networks to find where the mastermind was hiding. And after some discussions, the president approved of the mission tasked to kill […]

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Like all Americans, I am happy that the terrorist leader Osama Ben Laden has been killed.
Yes, as a Catholic Christian I pray for his soul, but unlike Time Magazine, I believe in hell, especially since there is no evidence that he repented his murders of the innocent on three continents.
Yet shortly after the announcement, my […]

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If you want to go to Medical schools in the US, you have to take a test called an MCAT. It is to try to figure out if you are smart enough to be a doc or something like that. I’m not sure, since I predate that test.
At least in the past doctors were trained […]

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Readers of my articles have likely figured out that I have little use for the entire Anthony clan, and very little respect for the legal team putting on her defense. The fact that the tax payer is funding Casey Anthony’s defense just pours salt on the wounds.
However, I also understand that the young lady does […]

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On the subject of e-readers I have kept very quiet, when it comes to books, you just cannot beat the weight of paper. Paper offers comfort and trust that no electronic version can. The smell of new ink, the handwritten note from the author, the choice of fonts, the front and back cover, all of […]

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Every innovation has three phases. When it is new, it is expensive and exclusive, when the technology catches on it becomes cheap and mainstream, and then it enters a phase of decline, the result is always the same. The great innovation dies. Except for a few die hard fans, the world moves on to the […]

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Although the tablet is making quite a stir in computing technology, the best web designers begin their initial designs on paper. Each web designer may have a preference – bound, unbound, unlined, lined, ridged or smooth. Although the materials vary, the objective remains the same. The goal of early explorations in web design is to […]

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the news of the Japanese earthquake is terrible.
US Navy Photo from StrategyPage.
But a few stories below the fold show how such disasters sometimes bring out the best in people.
BelmontClubBlog points out how the US Navy is there, assisting the Japanese Navy in areas where the infrastructure makes other ways to deliver aid difficult:

“…The […]

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Ok let me start with a question, what does the ip address of  69.72.189.220  mean to you? I’ll be honest, it held no interest to me until this morning. A check on comments left overnight showed a huge spike in ‘Ping Backs’. Rather than the regular 3 or 4, there were over 20 of them. […]

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I’ve been too busy to watch the US news on our cable network, but the BBC reports are mainly about the fighting in Libya.
But here in the Philippines, the headlines are about our workers. You see, there are at least 25,000 Filipino OFW’s (”overseas foreign workers”) in Libya, and although the government has arranged a […]

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The temporary shutdown in Egypt of Internet and other telecommunication services, as well as similar interruptions in other Middle East countries experiencing large-scale protests and rebellions, has galvanized hackers and human rights activists as well as U.S. foreign policy makers. The consequences may be not be what anyone expected.
The technologies for secure, private, fault tolerant […]

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TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, March 1, 2011 — In this series of analyses for Free Media Online (FreeMediaOnline.org) — U.S. International Broadcasting in Crisis– Ted Lipien, former Voice of America acting associate director, examines recent Broadcasting Board of Governors’ decisions, with a focus on the latest controversial plan to completely eliminate Voice of America on-the-air […]

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In a previous post, I joked that if the Governor of Wisconsin wanted to fire all his teachers, he could hire a lot of qualified Filipino teachers to replace them.
Yet this is not quite a joke: The cut backs in US medical training have resulted in the active importation of foreign medical graduates to fill […]

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FreeMediaOnline.orgTruckee, CA, USA, February 21, 2011 — As reported by PiratesWeek and Kim Andrew Elliott, a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee who publishes his own private international broadcasting website, the BBG-managed Voice of America (VOA) websites were hacked on February 21, 2011, apparently by the “Iranian Cyber Army.” In 2009, VOA websites were […]

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Clinton once had a line “It’s the economy, stupid”, and one longs for someone to teach economics to the present administration.
I was always a union supporter, and many of my family and friends belonged to unions. But you know what happened to a lot of textile jobs in the northern states in 1950’s and 1960’s? […]

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Writing real articles takes a lot of time. So the question is why bother? This is clearly a question that some sites have already made a decision on. Lets face it, if you have real people generating content, you also have the requirement for editors, and other boring overheads that add costs.
The solution is simple, […]

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There is little doubt that Google is the 800lb Lowland Gorilla of the internet. To cross them means almost certain death. They have a huge influence on the internet. I am not always in agreement with the company, and it can certainly be argued that they have created as many problems as they have fixed. […]

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Protesters fed up with political repression, corruption and poverty have toppled the government of Tunisia. They threaten to do the same in other countries throughout the Middle East as pundits hail the “Twitter and Facebook revolution”. But repressive governments have as much compunction about shutting down communication services as they do about torturing dissidents. Egypt […]

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Several months ago my wife and I made the decision that we were fed up with Cable TV. The price of the service seemed to be increasing faster than inflation in Mongolia, which was calculated at 28% in 2008. Of course Mongolia could curb their problem if they permitted the export of canned mutton, but […]

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I have to admit that I do not have much love for pyramid schemes. You can find yourself in a deep hole before you know it. You end up working 80 hours a week, and get paid for working about 2 hours at minimum wage.
Websafety has all the makings of a great scam. Oh it […]

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Well, everyone else does it, so I thought I would enter the fray.
10. Apple will have a new iThing, this one will do everything but wipe your bottom after going to the iToilet.
9. Microsoft will bring Bob back. He is sorely missed, and this could be the perfect app for windows phones.
8. Facebook will announce […]

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Actually the TV ad claims it is free, but free often comes with a price tag. The idea behind the site is that in this modern world we all need to protect ourselves and our loved ones from some person that might wish them harm. This is a great quest. One that should always be […]

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Unfortunately this device is not on the market just yet, but obviously it would have made the perfect Christmas gift for the iPerson in your life. Words fail me, so I am going to let the press release speak for itself.

Amsterdam (PRWEB) December 22, 2010

Angled Stand or also called by some the itoiletstand is […]

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I have to admit that I got a good chuckle out of an article published by PCmag
It states that Adobe call their version of Flash a work in progress. I to hope that they put more well fed Hamsters in the wheel than they have on other platforms. Flash on Linux is about as […]

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Comparing dot net developers and java developers, the former has several advantages over the latter. Among the foremost advantages of the dot net language itself is that it is considered to be a revised edition of Java. Experts familiar with software often tend to make mention of this. They also say that dot net is […]

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I have been down this well trodden path on many previous occasions. Which is better, Windows or Linux?
For years I watched this battle form. I rather enjoyed it, Windows offered a product that while badly flawed, offered the user a one click solution. You inserted the disk, or downloaded the program, one click was all […]

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In the early part of the year, Google & VMware announced a collaboration that enabled constructing business-related cloud portable web applications. The joint venture revealed how companies can benefit from the integrated developer tools in order to develop modern applications for the web. These would be ‘cloud ready’ right from the beginning and they would […]

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Today I received a wonderful Press Release from ComScore. I am sure that many of you have never even heard of this ‘blood sucking, useless organization’.  Do you hate being tracked online? Do you hate the concept of targeted ad’s? These folks are the kings!
I think if you Google these idiots you will find a […]

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Learn how to spot IT scams and unfair billing practices, how to interview an IT firm, what a service invoice or quote should look like, and much more in The IT Handbook for Business by William C. Couie.

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Microsoft has released a beta version of open source manager kit for web developers and its called NuPack for the .NET platform, reports The Register.
Independent web developers for the Nublar assignment collaborated with Microsoft to come up with this package. Upon completion, it was transferred to Outercure Foundation, which is sponsored by MS.
In essence, Nupack […]

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