October 17, 2006 Is Bigger always Better? No, this isn’t a Small Is Beautiful article. Its about “Small is Practical”. Let me begin with an anecdote. Back in the early 1980s…
October 13, 2006 Engineering Definitions With Thanks to Gary Hinson and Michael Gerdes who found this on the web and extended it … Project Manager is a Person who…
August 28, 2006 Are we really at risk from Snacks on a Plane? The Sunday Herald in England has this marvelous article:- http://www.sundayherald.com/57459 I love that headline! – Falacious Airline Risks: Indeed! This is a long article…
August 17, 2006 Realistic Risk Assesment I found the contents of this very interesting: http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv27n3/v27n3-5.pdf Example: Accordingly, it would seem to be reasonable for those in charge of our safety…
July 6, 2006 The truth About AV Those of you who haven’t visited Rob Bergeners VMyths.com site should do so. http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2006/0605/100.html To sell antivirus software, first you must sell the fear….
June 25, 2006 Irony Headline: FTC attorney’s laptops stolen http://www.presstelegram.com/business/ci_3969575 The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive…
June 23, 2006 Microsoft’s strategic insecurity Bruce Schneier pointed to this in his blog this week: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System ZDNet has a discussion about the ethics of such ‘hacking’. If Microsoft sells…
June 22, 2006 Side by side news I found this:- http://www.gcn.com/print/25_16/41041-1.html The Agriculture Department’s wireless policy, updated in April through a series of departmental notices, comprises everything from architectural requirements to…
