Month June 2003

What did they expect? “Facing a marked increase in the frequency and brazenness of attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq in the last two weeks, military officials are for the first time speaking more openly about the potential for a…

Wikis The definition of ‘asymmetric warfare’ in the above post comes from Wikipedia, ‘the free encyclopedia’. Wikis are blogs that anyone can post to. More importantly, anyone can update or add to an existing page. Thus the definition of ‘asymmetric…

“A tale told by an idiot…” “…full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. That’s how Shakespeare put it, railing about how life sometimes seems pointless. That’s how I felt last night, briefly, when I learned that Ed, a good friend, died…

My camblog gets SmartMobbed! SmartMobs is a blog from the book of the same name by Howard Rheingold. It deals with the social ramifications of “mobile communication, pervasive computing, wireless networks” especially as they lead to collective actions of all…

California recall echoing Florida voting debacle? From Daniel Weintraub’s California Insider “Big news from the Secretary of State’s office on the recall. According to a spokesman, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley has interpreted the law to say that county registrars need…