Bryan Strawser

Didn’t want to get up, and running things over stupid little dialup connection really sucks.

A bit more to the center of this issue, I sit…

There’s a time and place for secrecy in government.  The recent release of classified information about potential war plans in Iraq are dangerous – not that the military or the Defense Department isn’t subject to civilian oversight – but because they reveal potential tactics and plans that would be used in the event of war.  This endangers the lives of our men and women and risks the failure of a military campaign.  It’s a criminal act with severe consequences, and I’m completely comfortable with that.

Don Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, has ordered an investigation of these leaks – and I, for one, hope the person is identified, prosecuted, convicted, and rots in a cell.

Now that I’ve said that, I do believe in open government.  Our government agencies must be responsibile to civilian authorities, and ultimately to us, as citizens…  But in my mind, military information or intelligence information such as this must remain classified for years to come…

Now, some folks in the government are pissed off that information is being “leaked” to the public. So I ask you this. Why is it that the government thinks it can do all kinds of super secret squirrel stuff, but then it also thinks it’s OK to SNOOP on Americans??? That damned Patriot Act says that they can much more easily intrude on our private lives…our secrets…but yet THEY expect to be able to keep all THEIR secrets? Hmmmm. [kerri News]

I’m pretty intense.  I work hard, I play hard.  I probably work too much.  I write computer code for fun.  I work long hours.  I stress about my job.

I guess that’s intense…

How to live with an intense person. Dorothea Salo defines what it means to be an intense person, and gives advice on how to live with one. (310 words) [dive into mark]

Traveling to Baltimore as I write this (somewhere over New York, I expect) on Airtran.  The plane is a fairly new Boeing 717-200, their latest version of the old Douglas DC-9.  Pretty nice aircraft.

I got a great view of the completely glass cockpit on the way to my seat – very sweet looking interface.

Presently wireless in Terminal D at Boston’s Logan Airport (Gate 1D to be exact) waiting on the 3pm Airtran flight to Baltimore-Washington Airport.  Two days of presentation writing and spending time with some of my peers.

The wireless setup through Boingo is pretty slick, the throughput seems to be very solid and I’m quite impressed with the setup.  Sending company email from here is probably really freaking people out 😉  HAHA!

I’ve posted a little bit on why I’m going to be fascinated by this exploration… [Ray Ozzie’s Weblog]

Personally, I’m suprised the seven year old wasn’t charged under some “zero tolerance” statute…

2″ GI Joe rifle confiscated at LAX. The British tabloid The Sun reports that security guards at LAX confiscated a two-inch plastic GI Joe rifle from a seven-year-old’s toy action figure. I feel safer.

Security chiefs at Los Angeles airport said: ãWe have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica.

ãIf GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him.ä

Link Discuss (via MeFi) [Boing Boing Blog]

The continuing efforts to eliminate judgment from human processes scares me no end.  [McGee’s Musings]