Listening carefully to the commentary about a certain young platform diver representing China, I pick up some language odd to my Western ear. Pausing the DVR, I ask my bride if she heard. I rewind, and listen again.
“initially, she was selected for gymnastics progam. Then, a few years later, she was switched to diving.”
It [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Wang Xin, Chinese Girl
Will This Product Make the Portal More Functional?
With slight editing, this question was posed to me this morning. The product in question was an RSS service, of questionable value on many levels. For one, employees are not blocked from using their own RSS feeders, so those who are interested in using this capability are already doing so. For another – and more [...]
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What if there were only one regime for classified information?
Today, a security clearance from the Department of Defense still earns you a “Visitor, Escort Required” badge from the Department of Homeland Security. Or most intelligence agencies. The reverse is also true.
The reasons why aren’t important. The organizational histories are reasonable, there are no villians.
However, a systemic view of national security quickly points up the [...]
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