March 2012
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The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy... →
Here’s What I’m Reading Today. It’s a fascinating look into the massive data storage center the NSA is building in a remote part of Utah. It will be able to store all of our private phone conversations, emails, text messages, chats, credit card purchases, bank info, the list goes on and on. The article’s author, James Bamford, describes the site as Big Love meets Big...
Mar 28th
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Steve Jobs
So I just finished reading Jobs’ biography. I highly recommend it. I actually read the entire thing on a Blackberry. I felt it helped my objectivity; however, life has a funny way of effing with me. As soon as I finished reading umpteen hundred pages on my Blackberry Curve, which displays about a paragraph at a time, my IT department switched my phone to an iPhone. I’ve always...
Mar 26th
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What I'm Reading Today →
@NewYorker: I hate your firewall. Friends, sorry, today’s selection of my reading again comes from the New Yorker. You can read the abstract on their site. If you have a subscription, you should be able to see it online. If not, sneak into a doctor’s office and ‘borrow’ their copy. The story profiles Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. You may remember the movie Lord of...
Mar 1st
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