It seems like a lot of people have defined counter-insurgency doctrine at different levels of war. I’ve been trying to construct a VENN diagram showing elements of low intensity conflict for a project and came up with some things that…
The F-Word
As a former Marine I take umbrage at to much political correctness…. The f-word is a capital letter, comma, period, exclamation mark, and hyphen. It fills the role of punctuation in the speech of a Marine. It should be used…
Block Cheese and Wires: Are you afraid?
In the news today is a story about a TSA alert brought on by block cheese and wires (CNN.com). After seeing the story it seemed an interesting coincidence that the alert comes just a week after The Secretary of Homeland…
2007-2008 hardware and software requirements
The following is specific to my distance learning students who are in networking, operating systems, or security courses. Others may find it helpful. Distance learning students are required to have a working computer that meets the following requirements to take…
Manifest destiny another take on the subject
Much of our thought about how the frontier began and our American version of our own history is written from the perspective of Fredrick Jackson Turner. Writing in the 1880’s and 1890’s his thesis on the frontier described the effect…
Military Bloggers
The following post is in response to the Wired news story that members of the Army are specifically banned from posting on Blogs. This is of specific interest as Blogs have served as a “lessons learned” and educational tools form…
Privacy and terrorism
In the restriction of personal freedom for perceived security rarely do you gain that security you crave. You loose freedom in a iterative and piecemeal way leaving a hungry feeling for the freedoms lost. Reactionary political fascism has never resulted…
My Epic if sad fight with Dell
I was asked why after buying Dell computers for so many years and recommending them for so long “How come I no longer use or recommend Dell” Quite honestly after purchasing with my money (I provide all of my own…
Breaking Down Stereotypes: A Call for an ontological Model
Rosco, R., Rogers, M. Liles, S., “Breaking Down Stereotypes: A Call for an ontological Model“. In proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Hilton Waikoloa Village Waikoloa HI January 3 – 6, 2007
1986 Jeep CJ 7
1986 CJ 7 Jeep Laredo Lots of pictures The Jeep CJ getting built here More Jeep pictures (easier to see) here More (new) pictures of the 1986 Jeep CJ 7 here It wasn’t always roses here What it has Intermittent wipers…
Let’s be positive
Americans are sick and tired of hearing how much your opponent sucks. Petty name calling of your opponents proves an utter arrogance of the political process that reeks with the fetid and rancid rancor of illegitimate discussion. Providing a forum…
Hacking Democracy
Have you seen the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy? I watched it on Google Video a few hours ago. I have spent the intervening hours trying to collect and articulate my thoughts. To say I am upset is an understatement. I…
A story about motorcycles and quality
It’s always interesting how life comes together and things become a little clearer. When I first started riding motorcycles two-strokes were the machine of choice for speed. As my mileage on different bikes has increased my specifications for the perfect…
A Curriculum Model Based on the SIGITE Guidelines
Kamali, R., Liles, S., Jiang, K., Nicolai, B., “A Curriculum Model Based on the SIGITE Guidelines“. Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 5, 2006.
Martin Bengal
The Bengal Tiger is a ten foot long 500 pound silent killing machine. The Martin Bengal Compound Bow is a 32 inch ATA 4 pound silent killing machine. Either Bengal is a sinewy silent slick like oil on water shining…