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From Powerline: “Doorbell”

13 August, 2011 (23:17) | 2011 Elections, 2012 Elections, Blogging, Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

PowerLine, that blogging powerhouse that has risen to be a perennial favorite in conservative circles, highlights this wonderful political ad. Really hits home:

Mobile Test

28 May, 2011 (15:31) | Blogging | By: ricjames

As part of my relaunch efforts I’ve been re-assessing my tools and one of those is my mobile blogging app. Fortunately, WordPress offers a BlackBerry app just for this use and I have to say it’s looking good! I’ll have a post up later on the LCSO open house in Sterling earlier today. Until then, [...]

System Test

24 April, 2011 (09:05) | Blogging | By: ricjames

Testing to re-acquire.  Stand by for further transmission.

Relaunch – “Who’d a Thunk” it would have taken this long?

8 January, 2011 (11:44) | Blogging | By: ricjames

Yes, it’s been a while. I’ve been writing blogs in 1 form or another since late 2001, the very 1st such entry on the night President George W. Bush announced on TV that US forces were engaging the Taliban in Afghanistan in the process of going after Al Qaeda. That was before the term “blog” [...]

The Firesheep effect – what is it and what can you do about it?

6 November, 2010 (09:46) | Crime & Punishment, Human Interest, Internet, Law, Technology | By: ricjames

Over the last week you may have heard references to some techie topic that used the term “Firesheep” and wondered briefly what that was. You might also have heard that it deals with hacking, a security loophole in WiFi, or any number of other things. I’ve been looking at this for a few days and [...]

Blogging suspension

19 October, 2010 (00:31) | Blogging | By: ricjames

A project of a personal nature has come up that will require all of my time. I don’t want to have to stop blogging but I see no way around this for the time being. I hope to return to this in several days but I can’t be sure how long it will be, yet. [...]

Items of note and a light blogging alert

16 October, 2010 (10:21) | 2nd Amendment, Blogging, Immigration, Law, Politics | By: ricjames

Just wanted to raise a couple of items of note this morning. First, I’m attending a wedding later today so blogging will be light. Hopefully I can comment tomorrow on a couple of other items, namely: A Wisconsin judge has ruled that WI’s ban on concealed carry is unconstitutional. Interesting. I’m looking for the ruling [...]

Harriton HS in PA settled “peeping tom” lawsuits

14 October, 2010 (15:43) | Academia, Internet, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

Back in February I put up a post on a case being pressed in Philadelphia where students were being spied upon by the local school district who used a surveillance program installed – without notice – on the laptops issued to all HS students in the district. The school district was able to remotely activate [...]

Items of note

24 September, 2010 (08:53) | Blogging, Economy, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

It’s been a very busy week at work, forcing me to pretty much keep my head down and even necessitating multiple after-hours conference calls. That’s unusual, to be certain, and it’s kept me not only from blogging but from even reading the news as I usually do. Since “the storm” seems to be lifting, I’m [...]

Trojan horse reportedly spreading via e-mail, again.

10 September, 2010 (11:07) | Human Interest, Internet, Technology | By: ricjames

It appears a particularly virulent e-mail trojan was running around the Internet yesterday (and into today) that apparently managed to take down servers at a number of key enterprise locations. An e-mail virus swept through the Internet Thursday, snarling traffic and taking down servers at ABC, NASA, Comcast, and Google — and possibly even affecting [...]