Secure Mobile – True Encrypted Communication Voice interception is not an if, it is a where and when. If you think otherwise – your thinking is very faulty. So you say your calls are not interesting enough to … Read More
Articles under "Books & Product Reviews"
Disinformation
Disinformation, by Lt General Ion Mihai Pacepa and Professor Ronald J. Rychlak. ISBN 978-193648860-5 Pacepa was the former Chief of Romanian Intelligence who defected to the West. In this book a chilling … Read More
New Rental Cars
New Rental Cars I recently rented several different cars in several US cities and I came to the sound conclusion – I detest them – I detest them all. Speaking of a sound conclusion; how do you get one of these … Read More
Check Them Out! Background Checks
Check Them Out! Background Checks, Step-by-Step, by William Hermann Follow this link to the amazon page: … Read More
Goodbye Columbus by Phillip Roth
Goodbye Columbus by Phillip Roth Goodbye Columbus was the feature story in a collection of short stories published by Phillip Roth when he was 26, and he has now just celebrated his 80th birthday. I have read the … Read More
Bunch-O-Water Balloons
Bunch-O-Water Balloons All I have to say after many, many hours spent filling water balloons – used of course to ambush our children, friends, neighbors – and any others that happened to be in range, and may be … Read More
AirBNB.com
AirBNB.com Airbnb.com is a service dedicated to finding alternative dwelling rentals for the traveler and adventurer who does not what to spend money on a hotel or is looking for a different, more authentic … Read More
Air Travel
Air Travel Is it better than a long caravan or sea voyage? – yes. Are some flights better than others? – oh, heck yes. Are some seating configurations better than others? – uh huh. The good thing about … Read More
American Pastoral, by Phillip Roth
American Pastoral, by Phillip Roth Ok, so it won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. It really is a work of art and it caused a real dialogue between the reader and the author. The prose crafts pictures in the … Read More
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street Our view is a bit different from the side of frauds. One only has to see the destruction that fraud wrecks upon their victims to find what was done to be utterly reprehensible. The … Read More
Victorinox Luggage
Victorinox Luggage Rarely do we pen a complaint on an item a book or a service, but here is a case worth bringing up. The Victorinox Spectra 26, Hardside Spinner, in Blue. Price was about $210.00. The bag, which … Read More
CBonds.info
CBonds.info We were recently tasked to track down some very unusual bonds from some developing nations including a few with in the CIS States. In doing so we ran across a service called CBonds. From their web … Read More
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
[caption id="attachment_5104" align="alignleft" width="306"] View from 787 over Iraq[/caption] Your editor had a chance to fly on one of Qatar Airlines 787 from London to Doha just a while ago. As always I … Read More
Crystal Deodorant
Crystal Deodorant We had an interesting research project on deodorants and in specific the relatively new crystal deodorants that originated in Thailand. We learned that our western cleanliness lends to the need of … Read More
Mugabe’s War Machine, by Paul Moorcraft and Knox Chitiyo
Mugabe’s War Machine, by Paul Moorcraft and Knox Chitiyo ISBN-13: 978-1848844100 p from $18.00 to $35.00 USD Cited from the Amazon Summary: Mugabe's dictatorship had survived due to the vicious military … Read More
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio – Author
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Author Our author of choice is Le Clézio, who in our opinion is a very accomplished author. We have read; Desert, Fever, Mondo and Other Short Stories and look forward to reading … Read More
Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China
Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China by Andrew Wedeman ISBN 978-0801477768 about 20 dollars. Dr. Wedeman has done a fine job with … Read More
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ASIN: B0083DJWGO - List $30.00 There is fragile, robust and now - Anti-fragile. What Taleb calls “antifragile” is that category of things … Read More
Samsung NX1000 Camera
Samsung NX1000 Camera I have gone through about 10 digital cameras in 15 years. All under a three hundred dollars. I take pictures for fun, for work and just to remember places I have been and seen. My first … Read More
Yemen – The Unknown Arabia
Yemen - The Unknown Arabia by Tim Macintosh-Smith ISBN 1-58567-001-4 Published at $35.00 by Overlook. I was wandering through a used book store in Prescott, Arizona. We had just finished a project in Yemen … Read More
The Investment of Travel in Children
The Investment of Travel in Children The editors and contributors of this publication travel a great deal. We are the savants of our slice in our professions and our narrow bands of knowledge are desired by many … Read More
OffshoreAlert Conference Miami
Offshore Alert Conference, Miami Offshore Alert, Miami, FL, May 5th to 7th - is going to be one heck of an event. Your editor L. Burke Files will be speaking with David Lesperance on Economic Passports: Trends … Read More
Hello Kitty Bubbles Gun
Hello Kitty Bubbles Gun It appears that this bubbles gun in the mind of a 5 year old is a weapon of terror. Yep - a bubble head at Mt Carmel Middle School thought that when a 5 year old wanted to shoot bubbles at … Read More
Sue Doyle, Travel Agent Extraordinaire
Your faithful Aegis Editors log a lot of miles each and every year, not a million as some nut did this year, but a lot and to difficult destinations. We are not the road rangers you see in airplanes with their … Read More
Nu Finish Scratch Doctor
[caption id="attachment_4468" align="alignright" width="340"] Nu Finish[/caption] Ok, don’t laugh too hard. But this product saved me a great deal. While on a road trip with a rental car I was side swiped in … Read More
D. Glenn Foster 3 Faces Of The Liar
I just spent 3 days with D Glenn Foster immersed in Kinesic Interview and Interrogation. All I have to say is I am stunned that so much of what Glenn has developed to go after murders and criminals is so … Read More
Sucuri.Net
When the @#$%^& attacked our site we used a service to clean the site and it worked so well so quick, that even after we migrated the site to an actively secure site we have kept Scuri.Net. This program was … Read More
Hospitality Security, By Darrell Clifton, CPP
Published by CRC Press ISBN 978-1-4398-7436-3, $79.95 Hardcover and $29.36 Digital OK, I fully admit I have met Darrell and I met him at the 2012 Mensa Annual Gathering in Reno where he was giving several very … Read More
The Trust, by Norb Vonnegut
The Trust, by Norb Vonnegut, $25.99 - ISBN 978-1-250-00389-8 It took me a few days to get to the book after I picked up a copy and I must say - Well done Norb! From South Carolina to Turks and Caicos this novel … Read More
Wi-Fi Blocking Wallpaper
Researchers in Grenoble have had an original idea to prevent your Wi-Fi network from being hacked, you can use wallpaper that block your Wi-Fi signal from leaving the apartment and thus keeping it safe from … Read More
Plastic Garbage Bags
Plastic Garbage Bags So who are you? Plastic bag from the grocery, paper bag or reusable bag? Lets first look at the difference between plastic and paper bags. This is an excellent comparison for those who feel … Read More
A Great Obituary
An obituary is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an account of the person's life and information about the upcoming funeral or memorial. So many obituaries are little … Read More
A Client Review
We were approached by a man who wanted to sell automobiles and heavy equipment to Burma (Myanmar) for cash that some relative would collect. He said - Burma (Myanmar) is now OK, Hillary Clinton was just there. … Read More
FATF 2012 AML Recommendations
On 16 February 2012, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global standard setting body for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) , published the following public documents, … Read More
Help Your Employees Get Through Failure
By Gail Kasper, Author and Mentor of the Top 1% Club http://www.gailkasper.com I am sure many of you, like me, have had to lend a supportive ear to an employee or associate. If you’re a manager, business owner or … Read More
Sue Doyle, Travel Agent Extraordinaire
Your faithful Aegis Editors log a lot of miles each and every year, not a million as some nut did this year, but a lot and to difficult destinations. We are not the road rangers you see in airplanes with their … Read More
10th Annual OffshoreAlert Conference
10th Annual OffshoreAlert Conference http://www.offshorealert.com/sessionlist.aspx?fid=24075 It's hard to honestly review a conference before attending, but after having attended nine of the past conferences … Read More