It’s Not Just the M16 (Tuesday, December 18, 2007)
New dust test finds the M4 carbine has jam problems in desert conditions
What Did You Expect, Exactly? (Monday, September 3, 2007)
Don't give out your passwords, people.
The Most Dangerous Weapon of Mass Destruction (Wednesday, August 15, 2007)
And no, it's not the nuke
When I Hear "Web 2.0", I Reach For My Revolver (Wednesday, July 25, 2007)
Seriously, people, get over yourselves
Why I Don't Write Much About Iraq Anymore (Sunday, July 22, 2007)
How many ways are there to say "no good options"?
"Bring a Change of Clothes With You to Work"? (Sunday, June 24, 2007)
Finally, a drug for those who are looking to lose weight and wish they suffered from diarrhea more often!
"Coasting" Is Also Bullshit (Wednesday, May 9, 2007)
Why don't people ride bikes??? Gee, I wonder
Bikes Are Bullshit (Monday, May 7, 2007)
Seriously. They are
Peter Jackson's 'King Kong' (Wednesday, April 25, 2007)
Never in modern film has a camera so drooled over an actress
How To Stop Getting Credit Card Offers In the Mail (Sunday, March 4, 2007)
Don't make it easy for identity thieves -- protect yourself by opting out of pre-screened credit card offers
How To Get a Free Credit Report That's Actually Free (Wednesday, February 28, 2007)
Turns out you can't believe advertisements. Go figure
The Hidden Danger of Escalation (Sunday, January 14, 2007)
What's the worst that could happen? Find out
"Surge": A Bad Idea By Any Name (Wednesday, January 10, 2007)
Put up or shut up, Mr. President
Congress and CAPTCHAs (Wednesday, June 7, 2006)
Much ado about Web forms
The Worst Thing About PHP (Tuesday, May 30, 2006)
... is the documentation. It's not that it's badly written; it's reasonably clear in that sense. Rather, the problem...
How To Find New Movies You Will Love (Sunday, May 21, 2006)
Some of you may be wondering why I took the time to write a post beating up on screenwriter Akiva...
A Taste of Phil (Monday, May 15, 2006)
Wondering what I was on about last week? Here you go
Passages: A. Scott Crossfield (Friday, April 21, 2006)
An aviation pioneer is lost
Taxes (Monday, April 17, 2006)
Since tonight is the deadline for filing Federal income taxes in most of the country, I thought now would be...
Free Speech, and Its Discontents (Monday, February 6, 2006)
When liberal institutions meet illiberal constituencies
How To See London In One Day (Wednesday, January 25, 2006)
You can't see everything. But you can still have a good time
Where Is America? (Thursday, December 22, 2005)
By now you've probably heard that President Bush authorized the use of the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American...
Why War Made No Sense (Monday, November 28, 2005)
Thinking about war at the grand-strategic level
Microsoft Live: Old Wine, New Bottle? (Tuesday, November 1, 2005)
The Next Big Thing from Microsoft may be neither next nor big. At least it's a thing
Passages: My Mom, Beverly Lefkowitz (Friday, October 7, 2005)
I lost my mother today.
Punk'd (Monday, October 3, 2005)
The Miers nomination
"Downfall" (Sunday, September 18, 2005)
I highly recommend this portrayal of Hitler's last days
The End of New Orleans: What Leadership Isn't (Friday, September 9, 2005)
A lesson from the sunken city
The End of New Orleans: And The Buck-Passing Begins (Sunday, September 4, 2005)
Even as thousands remained to be evacuated from the sodden ruins of New Orleans, even as gun battles continued to...
Printing in Linux: Still Waaaay Harder Than It Has To Be (Monday, August 22, 2005)
Will the subject that has defeated Open Source Legends defeat Our Favorite Geek?
Braddock's Dark and Bloody Road (Part 2) (Thursday, July 14, 2005)
Our story ends
Braddock's Dark and Bloody Road (Wednesday, July 13, 2005)
Exploring the history behind a neighborhood landmark
Are We Safer Now? (Friday, July 8, 2005)
Flypaper? Let's look at the f#@%ing map
A Meditation on Racism (Thursday, June 30, 2005)
I have a feeling I'm going to get flamed for this one...
"Dear Fellow Rider" (Tuesday, June 7, 2005)
Good journalism from the Post; bad management from Metro
Two Ways To Say the Same Thing (Thursday, May 19, 2005)
One long, one short
Did He Really Say That? (Tuesday, May 10, 2005)
Yes, yes he did.
Google Web Accelerator == Pitiless Enforcer of Web Design Patterns (Monday, May 9, 2005)
GWA is about to break a whoooole lotta Web apps. Is yours one of them?
H & R Blockhead (Tuesday, April 12, 2005)
Adventures in tax compliance
Fixing PalmOne's Product Line (Monday, February 7, 2005)
Let's look at one way to improve PalmOne's sales story
PalmOne, We Hardly Knew Ye (Monday, February 7, 2005)
A once-great company stumbling towards irrelevance
HOWTO: Add Live Bookmarks Support to Your Site (Monday, February 7, 2005)
It's easier than you probably think
Instapundit: Idiot (Thursday, January 20, 2005)
No! George Bush cannot make a mistake! It must have been... GREMLINS! Yes! Damn those gremlins!
Get the Most Out of Firefox: Cut Through Pages With Find As You Type (Sunday, November 21, 2004)
Learn how Firefox can help you search WITHIN a page
Get the Most Out of Firefox: Adding New Search Engines to the Search Bar (Sunday, November 14, 2004)
Learn how to turn Firefox into a searching machine!
Are We All Fundamentalists Now? (Tuesday, September 28, 2004)
A serious question
Witty? Not So Much (Saturday, September 18, 2004)
Bad politics is one thing. But there's no excuse for bad theater
The 9/11 Commission Report (Saturday, September 11, 2004)
Reflections on an important document
SMACKDOWN! (Friday, August 20, 2004)
And it couldn't happen to a more deserving person
KBR: Where Money Is No Object (Tuesday, July 27, 2004)
How bad is the waste of taxpayer money by Halliburton? Pretty bad
The Pentagon's Procurement Mess (Monday, May 3, 2004)
God damn, this stuff makes me mad
Stereotypes Ahoy! (Tuesday, April 27, 2004)
From the Washington Post: Look, everyone! Hicks!
Getting It Wrong, Revisited (Monday, March 15, 2004)
Rolling up my sleeves
Getting It Wrong (Monday, March 15, 2004)
Marginal Revolution, less than marginally incorrect
Confessions of a Moral Coward (Monday, March 1, 2004)
The FMA got me thinking
Do You Shop At Safeway? Well, Don't (Thursday, February 5, 2004)
Striking grocery workers need your support
Time To Start Asking the Hard Questions About Trippi and the $40 Million (Saturday, January 31, 2004)
I have held off commenting on the post-New Hampshire reorganization at Dean for America (DFA) for the last few days...
I'm Sure It Sounded Better In The Original German (Wednesday, January 7, 2004)
Ralph Peters: liberty is for whiners
Charlie Hustle Comes Clean. Sort Of (Tuesday, January 6, 2004)
A new twist in a Cincinnati soap opera
Going 'Round the Maginot Line (Tuesday, December 9, 2003)
More thoughts on missile defense
American Maginot-ism (Sunday, December 7, 2003)
Bad ideas never die, apparently
The Battle of Samarra, And What it Tells Us (Tuesday, December 2, 2003)
Another day, another firefight. Right? Wrong
Fairfax County's E-Voting Debacle (Thursday, November 6, 2003)
Well, that could have gone better
Deflating Salon's Draft Paranoia (Wednesday, November 5, 2003)
The draft bogeyman rears his ugly head
Life Imitates Art (Friday, October 31, 2003)
Random funny story time
The Air Force's Shameful Tanker Deal (Monday, October 27, 2003)
Iron triangles in action
The Big List O' Quality Software (Sunday, October 26, 2003)
Some general recommendations for things you should check out
Send the Expos South (Tuesday, October 14, 2003)
Baseball in Mexico? Absolutely
Trust The Computer, Citizen (Monday, October 13, 2003)
Fairfax County election board: incompetent, or just stupid?
A Little Perspective (Monday, September 8, 2003)
Doing the math
Bombshell: The Valerie Plame Affair (Wednesday, July 30, 2003)
Is intelligence just politics by other means?
Microsoft and the Magic Coffee Machine (Monday, June 23, 2003)
Software, coffee, and convicted monopolists
Reclaim the Public Domain (Monday, June 9, 2003)
I sent this out by e-mail this morning to my Big List of Friends & Family -- but on the...
Watchfire Flips the Bird (Monday, April 28, 2003)
Here's another example for the continuing saga of companies using EULAs to give their customers the shaft: Watchfire, the company...
Where Leaders Fail, Part Three: Hubris (Wednesday, April 9, 2003)
An essay on the dangers of arrogance and overconfidence.
Where Leaders Fail, Part Two: Credibility Capital (Thursday, March 6, 2003)
As a kid, I was a member of the Civil Air Patrol, the youth auxiliary of the Air Force. (At...
Dancing With the Devil (Cont.) (Wednesday, February 26, 2003)
After I posted my piece on Sy Hersh's observations regarding Pakistan, I got to thinking about why I found them...
Where Leaders Fail, Part One: More Faster (Friday, February 21, 2003)
Probably the most common mistake I've seen leaders make under pressure is a dysfunction I call "More Faster" syndrome. To...
Rocket's Red Glare (Monday, February 3, 2003)
You almost certainly by now have heard about Saturday's catastrophic failure on board the Space Shuttle Columbia. The national conversation...
AOL Is Dead (Tuesday, January 14, 2003)
You've probably heard by now that Steve Case is leaving AOL/Time Warner. Naturally AOLTW shareholders are cheering, as they're tired...
Airport Security: A Keystone Kops Production (Tuesday, December 31, 2002)
So I'm flying back to Washington, DC from Dayton, OH this evening after a nice, relaxing winter holiday, and when...
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys (and Girls) Are Marching... (Wednesday, October 30, 2002)
So over the weekend I got talked into attending the big rally in downtown DC against war in Iraq. It...
The Case Against War (Sunday, September 15, 2002)
Recently, a friend sent me an e-mail that made the case that anyone who was leery of launching a war...
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