Everybody knows that the government is not the right organization to seek money-saving tips from. Daniel Jacobson from Stanford found that out first-hand when he did his local government’s work for them. For about 0.15% of the government-quoted cost, he came up with a plan for a community streetcar. If you ever thought that you [...]
By now, many of you have heard of Abby Sunderland, who has recently suffered a mishap in her attempt to sail around the world. Congratulations, Abby, on making it more than half-way to your goal. The media is all over her failure, rather than applauding her success. Apparently, her parents should have stopped her from [...]
As a member of the Canadian military, I have been hearing alot about Olympic security. A task force has been stood up, specifically for Olympic security. But is this all smoke and mirrors? In response to concerns about high-profile event security, Bruce Schneier, an internationally-recognized security expert, has this to say: This is certainly the [...]
There are parts of my job that I’m not allowed to talk about. Sometimes it makes it into the news. We were already at sea, but since we were the duty ship, we would have been recalled. Just got back today from the training that was originally scheduled.
I didn’t even know you could do this, but a Peter Katz, a researcher in London, has proven that movie suspense is just as terrifying as movie horror. Seems he plugged a movie viewer into an MRI as she watched his new movie, Pop Skull, and watched her fear indicators spike. He claims that this [...]
So I got a letter from ICBC, telling me that it’s time to renew my car insurance. They note that, with my 15 years of safe driving, I get a 47% discount on next year’s insurance. I celebrated this fact by getting into an almost-head-on collision. I was making a left turn, the other car [...]
Anyone in BC, and probably many people across Canada (I don’t know how far the news has spread) knows about the wildfires in the BC mainland. Well, the message came down, and my ship is standing by to send bodies to assist. A number of our crew are now on 72-hour standby. I, however, am [...]
In the course of my employment, I am regularly exposed to classified information. Before I was allowed to look at anything remotely classified, I was informed, in no uncertain terms, of the importance of properly disposing of documents, both in hard-copy and on computer media. Even before I joined the military, when I was working [...]
During his campaigning, President Obama said he was going to shut down Guatanamo Bay. Some people liked this idea, some didn’t, as can be expected. Now, he’s trying to do it. But he can’t find anywhere to put the terrorists. He tried to send them to Canada, but we refused. Even his own country won’t [...]
After over a year of exile, living in an embassy in Sudan, Abousfian Abdelrazik is finally (maybe) allowed to return home1. Although he is a Canadian citizen, he was not allowed to fly home to Canada. Our own security services, including CSIS and the RCMP, have cleared him of any terrorist ties, but he remains on [...]
