Techlog

I read two very interesting books this week, the first was Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey. It’s my first Tim Dorsey book although he has written several, and I really enjoyed this book. His writing style seems a lot like Jimmy Buffett’s if you ask me, if you like the series Dexter I think you’ll [...]

Hey everyone. My previous post on Nobel Prize Winner Talks included lectures from 1999 to 2007. This time I want to update on this topic and list Nobel Prize Winner Videos from 2008.They include Physics Nobel Prize, Chemistry Nobel Prize, Medicine Nobel Prize, Psychology Nobel Prize, Literature Nobel Prize, Peace Nobel Prize and Economics Nobel [...]

Internet Security:

Mcafee has an interesting report based on Major user
experiences and opinions,

Uniquely, the report is based on data from a survey of 600 IT and security executives in enterprises that own and/or operate critical infrastructure in 14 countries across the world. The survey data gathered for the report paints for the first time a detailed [...]

Iran’s Green Movement dying.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fenced in 
 supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
and Abberjonny is far more powerful than before
the Revolutionary Guard’s putsch.

The president is marginalizing the Mullahs
with the IRCG, they are slowly usurping power.

And Green leaders looking for way out after
hanging of two green Martyrs.
Two prisoners, Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani, 
37, and Arash Rahmani Pour, 19.

The regime’s brutal crack down is [...]

NY Times:
For the past year, China has adopted an increasingly muscular position toward the United States, berating American officials for the global economic crisis, stage-managing President Obama’s visit to China in November, refusing to back a tougher climate change agreement in Copenhagen and standing fast against American demands for tough new Security Council sanctions against [...]

Independent:
A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government’s former chief scientist. Sir David King, who was Tony Blair’s chief scientific adviser for seven years until 2007, said that [...]

The scrape metal is going to the Chinese.

LA Times:
Weighing 70 tons, traveling up to 45 mph and possessed of a smash-mouth name, the Assault Breacher Vehicle is the Marine Corps’ latest answer to a perennial problem of offensive warfare: how to push through the barriers and booby traps of an enemy’s outer defenses.
Over the decades, Marines have used various strategies to breach [...]

Doyle McManus:
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In a conversation with journalists, Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, was blunt about what Republicans can expect if they don’t find a way to compromise.
“We are going to very visibly seek their support moving forward, and we will shine a bright light on them when they don’t,” he said. “If they want to [...]