Who’s on first?
Bob Morris @ May 27th 2005 13:22 - Category: Unfiled ;
“Five cases of Quran ‘mishandling’” found by Brig. General Jay W. Hood
Yet
“Pentagon officials says no credible evidence of Koran abuse.”
Archive for May 27th, 2005
The Podcast Hotel
Bob Morris @ May 27th 2005 12:09 - Category: Podcasts ;
This looks really interesting
The Podcast Hotel: Where Art and Commerce Meet.
On Sept. 6 and 7, the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, Or., will become a podcast and videoblog studio. Rooms will be for recording, editing and producing. The court yard will be a media lounge. The underground club will be for podcast concerts. And the city of Portland will become our stage.
The stage will be set not just in Portland but around the world, where podcasters and video bloggers will document their work and their communities for inclusion in the Podcast Hotel. It’s an extended event that will celebrate not just podcasting and video blogging but the ability of us all to create in whole new ways.
France votes on EU membership Sunday
Bob Morris @ May 27th 2005 08:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
Polls show the No vote at 55%.
“If the ‘No’ wins, there will be not only a European crisis … but also an enormous political upheaval in France,” said Christophe Barbier, deputy editor of L’Express magazine.
The Netherlands votes in a referendum next Wednesday, with polls pointing to a “No.”
ABC rightly says a No in France will be a ‘political earthquake.’
The rush is on
Bob Morris @ May 27th 2005 08:35 - Category: Podcasts ;
U.S. Customs and travel
Bob Morris @ May 27th 2005 08:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
I’m back in L.A. after 4 days in Montreal on business. When returning to the States from Montreal, you clear U.S. Customs in the Montreal Airport which is both handy and a bit weird, going through U.S. Customs while on foreign soil. The first question they ask is, were you born in the United States. Why should that matter if you already have a U.S. passport? And wouldn’t they already know that anyway?
Here’s a tip, if carrying a notebook computer, always take it out of the briefcase and put it on a tray by itself for the scanners. I forgot to do this while leaving L.A. and this really honks them off, like you just made an annoying deeply clueless rookie mistake.
I listened to Adam Curry’s podcasts while in Montreal. He got stuck in Phoenix because America West had some monumental screwup resulting in all flights being cancelled with incoming luggage vanishing into a black hole. Others have had similar experiences with America West, who are currently merging with US Airways. Regular readers of Polizeros will recall my experiences with US Airways in late Dec. last year, when they lost thousands of pieces of luggage on the East Coast, which almosr resulted in Sue and I getting married in jeans, not the wedding attire that was in the luggage.
The new merged airline - maybe they could call it America’s Worst Airways? -, is definitely one to never ever fly on. Air Canana, on the other hand, was forced to take off an hour late to Chicago on my return because of high winds somewhere. They made up 30 minutes enroute, arriving only 30 minutes late, and I walked off the plane literally 5 minutes after touchdown - and thus made my connecting flight back to LA. They are a pro airline.
Encryption as evidence of criminal intent.
Bob Morris @ May 27th 2005 08:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Schneier on Security
An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
I am speechless.
