December 2010
10 posts
NORAD Tracks Santa - Started as mistake
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/whytrack.html and it started because of a typo on phone number in a Sears ad 50 years ago. (I hadn’t seen that before this year.)
Congratulations to NORAD, its predecessor commands and all the volunteers for doing the right thing all those years ago, keeping it going and improving it. We’ve had children over on Christmas Eve and I enjoyed seeing how...
This may cost me some Mil friends - Repeal of DADT...
I do know that some of my Military Twitter and Facebook friends feel the repeal of DADT is wrong. I don’t. You are, of course, free to unfollow me, unfriend me, whatever… I hope you won’t because I really am a Military supporter, but I’m going to call it as I see it.
I thank all who serve, their family and friends for their service and sacrifice because I do know that...
RT @JenaJean on reputation - Buffett quote
RT @Palidan “It takes 20 yrs to build a reputation & 5 min to ruin it. If you think about it, you’ll do things differently.” Warren Buffett.
That is so true… Building a reputation takes long, hard work. Screwing it up can be almost instantaneous. Rebuilding a screwed up reputation takes even longer than starting from scratch. Like most things, common sense and...
GM's Christopher Barger on SM from ZD Net →
Good points on how using social media is about more than numbers and asking the question if there is another bubble out there that could burst.
This is an article you should make time for…
“I really like Lehrer’s way of thinking here. His Editorial...”
– Jim Lehrer (via newshour) (via nprfreshair)
Robert Reich: Questions, please →
Mr. Reich - I’m nowhere near as smart as you, but I would ask if your views here don’t have the same fatal flaw - you want your world view, the Republican’s want their world view. Frankly, I don’t believe either of the extremes have the right view and hope that maybe everyone at the edge of the debates might just try to find a view that actually makes some promise for the...
“It’s been fascinating to watch the left’s emotional roller-coaster these past...”
– Cutting through backlash from Democrats on Obama’s tax compromise, Andrew Sullivan sees a longer view in the president’s strategy. (via theatlantic)
Feds: Navy intel specialist jailed on classified... →
Navy intel specialist jailed on classified info allegations from @CNN. There are so may jarring things in this short article.
Leaking Top Secret and Secret information - ‘nough said! Doing it for $3,500.00? Signing two cash receipts for people you thought were foreign agents? Loop back from those last two points and consider the person’s title “Intel Specialist” - yeah,...
Tumblr Staff: Downtime →
staff:
Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs back online.
While you…
I give this explanation a B- and hope they will try to do better about keeping us...
