Vanity Fair covers The New Yorker

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We won in Iraq, a long time ago

I know this goes without saying, but it keeps coming up.
Remember when our troops marched into Baghdad, took the place over, drove Saddam into a hole and arrested or killed the government. Then we disbanded their army.
When you go to war that’s what victory looks like.
Then came the occupation. There is no such thing as […]

Time for an EVDO sidegrade

One of the benefits of writing this blog is that when it’s time to make a technology decision, I get advice from the best informed most opinionated and smartest people in the business — you!
Anyway, last year I got a Sprint EVDO card for my MacBook laptop. It was probably the wrong decision, I figured […]

Future-safe archives, again

I was on a cleanup and backup binge today, and came across a folder on one of my disks entitled Trade Secrets in a place where it didn’t belong. I did a search on my LAN and found it was my only copy, not just here, but on the net too.
I had made a point […]