The Sidebar Solves Boredom
I spent most of yesterday afternoon with Mighty Good Leader and Mrs. Good Leader, so this will be a brief post. I added a few links to the sidebar, and they are as follows:
I've added Snorg Tees - mostly just T-Shirts with one-liners from Will Ferrell movies, but it's just barely worth adding to the "Awesome Shirts" section.
I've added NIST security publications, InfoSec Writers, and IT Security to round out what is now the "Defense, Intel, & Security" section. Have you ever wondered what you can do to stop Chinese gangsters from stealing your credit card number from that text file you keep in "My Documents" with all of your financial information in it? These are some great publications and articles, to include two of my favorites: 51 Things You Can't See on Google Maps, and Botnets, Zombies, and IRC Security. For the record, the former omits this area of the Netherlands, and the second features the following line:
I've added Radio Sawa and ArabicPod.net to the "Listening In" section. You all know that I work every week to expand my Arabic skills, and these are two of the tools I intend to use in the near future.
I've added South Park Studios, NBC (watch Earl!), CBS (watch How I Met Your Mother, Star Trek, and MacGyver!), and Hulu (watch Firefly!) to the "Time Wasters" section. Let's face it, a lot of you check my blog in order to find something to pass a little bit of down time at work, so these should help.
For the readers in the group, I've added Strategy (MCDP 1-1), Campaigning (MCDP 1-2), Tactics (MCDP 1-3), and Intelligence (MCDP 2). More of these will be added shortly, as I begin research and development on a new, short-term project. Some of you may remember my ancient history archive CD, and I seem to remember Peter actually receiving one. For my own purposes, I want to expand this and start archiving a number of other items, to include some Army and Marine Corps doctrine and field manuals.
Interestingly enough, relating to Firefly - did you know that Adam Baldwin isn't related to the Baldwin Brothers? This actually made my day when I found it out a week or two ago, because I think Adam Baldwin is awesome, and I think that the rest of the Baldwins (well, those four) are absolute tools. Brilliant!
As many of you know, my time living and working in the Mojave Desert was formative. In addition to my own equipment that made it out of the Desert with me, I've taken to procuring certain pieces of equipment that were issued to me by my employers. The major items that I've found a great deal of us out of are my Garmin eTrex and my Cabela's Outfitter XL Cot. I've identified one more item that could come in handy during future moves and storage efforts: Rubbermaid Action Packers. These things are exceptionally useful, and six or eight of them could seriously reduce the number of boxes I have to store. I've been hauling boxes around for the last two and a half years, so the ability to more effectively store my crap, or the boxes used for hauling my crap, is an ability that's highly valuable as far as I'm concerned.
Bollocks. I have to get myself put together... Alright, things to do, things to do. I'll have a few more things to discuss in the coming days; several projects that I'm going to start sketching out, and I'll likely inform you folks of them as they begin to take form. Planning, mostly, but all planning is aimed at future accomplishments. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: I am really starting to get frustrated with Senator Obama. I saw the following headline this morning as I was checking my E-Mail: Iraqi backing of Obama plan irks White House. The sub-heading reads: "Says Baghdad may be using U.S. election as leverage in negotiations". Allow me, an experienced journalist and media analyst, to translate that first headline for you: "Senator Obama tells Iraqi leaders what he thinks they want to hear in order to secure more media attention". This undermines and jeopardizes America's military policy which, until January, is the purview of President Bush (whose status as President of the United States makes him Commander-in-Chief). Senator Obama's status as a single, solitary legislator in the Senate, representing the state of Illinois, affords him the authority to vote in the Senate on funding issues relating to the military. That's pretty much it.
Most frustrating to me is the fact that Senator Obama now appears to be making disingenuous statements to foreign leaders in an effort to mask his complete lack of any foreign policy experience. It's one thing to make disingenuous statements to the American public - we expect that from politicians. Senator Obama is proving himself to be just that. Senator Obama isn't actually using this trip as a "fact-finding tour" (as opposed to the political stunt that it obviously is), in which he can allegedly refine his policies based upon what's happening on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. He's doing what conservative commentators have claimed all along: he isn't changing any of his positions at all, and he's making outlandish and illegitimate claims to foreign leaders in order to generate perceived political capital. To subvert American foreign policy for political gain like this shows a profound lack of character and judgment, and voters should seriously consider that.
Charles Krauthammer has an excellent article entitled The Audacity of Vanity, that discusses the trip (and specifically Obama's plan to use Germany's Brandenberg Gate for an appearance to the German people). Perhaps the greatest portion of the article:
Alright, enough politics for now. And, as I've said before, I'll try to keep these rants to a minimum as we approach the election - I'm still more interested in posting security news and random nonsense than getting back into extensive politics coverage. Take it easy, folks!
I've added Snorg Tees - mostly just T-Shirts with one-liners from Will Ferrell movies, but it's just barely worth adding to the "Awesome Shirts" section.
I've added NIST security publications, InfoSec Writers, and IT Security to round out what is now the "Defense, Intel, & Security" section. Have you ever wondered what you can do to stop Chinese gangsters from stealing your credit card number from that text file you keep in "My Documents" with all of your financial information in it? These are some great publications and articles, to include two of my favorites: 51 Things You Can't See on Google Maps, and Botnets, Zombies, and IRC Security. For the record, the former omits this area of the Netherlands, and the second features the following line:
Zombie armies are forming at this very moment.
I've added Radio Sawa and ArabicPod.net to the "Listening In" section. You all know that I work every week to expand my Arabic skills, and these are two of the tools I intend to use in the near future.
I've added South Park Studios, NBC (watch Earl!), CBS (watch How I Met Your Mother, Star Trek, and MacGyver!), and Hulu (watch Firefly!) to the "Time Wasters" section. Let's face it, a lot of you check my blog in order to find something to pass a little bit of down time at work, so these should help.
For the readers in the group, I've added Strategy (MCDP 1-1), Campaigning (MCDP 1-2), Tactics (MCDP 1-3), and Intelligence (MCDP 2). More of these will be added shortly, as I begin research and development on a new, short-term project. Some of you may remember my ancient history archive CD, and I seem to remember Peter actually receiving one. For my own purposes, I want to expand this and start archiving a number of other items, to include some Army and Marine Corps doctrine and field manuals.
Interestingly enough, relating to Firefly - did you know that Adam Baldwin isn't related to the Baldwin Brothers? This actually made my day when I found it out a week or two ago, because I think Adam Baldwin is awesome, and I think that the rest of the Baldwins (well, those four) are absolute tools. Brilliant!
As many of you know, my time living and working in the Mojave Desert was formative. In addition to my own equipment that made it out of the Desert with me, I've taken to procuring certain pieces of equipment that were issued to me by my employers. The major items that I've found a great deal of us out of are my Garmin eTrex and my Cabela's Outfitter XL Cot. I've identified one more item that could come in handy during future moves and storage efforts: Rubbermaid Action Packers. These things are exceptionally useful, and six or eight of them could seriously reduce the number of boxes I have to store. I've been hauling boxes around for the last two and a half years, so the ability to more effectively store my crap, or the boxes used for hauling my crap, is an ability that's highly valuable as far as I'm concerned.
Bollocks. I have to get myself put together... Alright, things to do, things to do. I'll have a few more things to discuss in the coming days; several projects that I'm going to start sketching out, and I'll likely inform you folks of them as they begin to take form. Planning, mostly, but all planning is aimed at future accomplishments. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: I am really starting to get frustrated with Senator Obama. I saw the following headline this morning as I was checking my E-Mail: Iraqi backing of Obama plan irks White House. The sub-heading reads: "Says Baghdad may be using U.S. election as leverage in negotiations". Allow me, an experienced journalist and media analyst, to translate that first headline for you: "Senator Obama tells Iraqi leaders what he thinks they want to hear in order to secure more media attention". This undermines and jeopardizes America's military policy which, until January, is the purview of President Bush (whose status as President of the United States makes him Commander-in-Chief). Senator Obama's status as a single, solitary legislator in the Senate, representing the state of Illinois, affords him the authority to vote in the Senate on funding issues relating to the military. That's pretty much it.
Most frustrating to me is the fact that Senator Obama now appears to be making disingenuous statements to foreign leaders in an effort to mask his complete lack of any foreign policy experience. It's one thing to make disingenuous statements to the American public - we expect that from politicians. Senator Obama is proving himself to be just that. Senator Obama isn't actually using this trip as a "fact-finding tour" (as opposed to the political stunt that it obviously is), in which he can allegedly refine his policies based upon what's happening on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. He's doing what conservative commentators have claimed all along: he isn't changing any of his positions at all, and he's making outlandish and illegitimate claims to foreign leaders in order to generate perceived political capital. To subvert American foreign policy for political gain like this shows a profound lack of character and judgment, and voters should seriously consider that.
Charles Krauthammer has an excellent article entitled The Audacity of Vanity, that discusses the trip (and specifically Obama's plan to use Germany's Brandenberg Gate for an appearance to the German people). Perhaps the greatest portion of the article:
What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Ronald Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final "tear down this wall" liquidation. When President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin.
Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush the elder -- who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap -- called "a Europe whole and free"?
Does Obama not see the incongruity? It's as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech.
Alright, enough politics for now. And, as I've said before, I'll try to keep these rants to a minimum as we approach the election - I'm still more interested in posting security news and random nonsense than getting back into extensive politics coverage. Take it easy, folks!
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