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 tagged "Book Review"
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
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 $35.00 by Overlook. I was wandering through a used book store in Prescott, Arizona. We had just finished a project in Yemen … Read More
The Investment of Travel in Children
The Investment of Travel in Children The editors and contributors of this publication travel a great deal. We are the savants of our slice in our professions and our narrow bands of knowledge are desired by many … Read More
Sucuri.Net
When the @#$%^& 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
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
Rear Window
[caption id="attachment_3984" align="alignleft" width="220"] As seen on a real rear window[/caption] Looks like there was one too many groundings -- but there is apparently still some love left. I am not sure if … Read More
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani, 2008
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani, 2008 This is a book that has been on my stack of reading for two years. It came highly recommended, and I have no idea why … Read More
Is My Cell Phone Bugged?
Is My Cell Phone Bugged? by Kevin D. Murray, 158 pages, ©2011, $11.90 A fun read for those in the field of understanding the vulnerabilities of information technologies (and that's all I'm going to say about … Read More
The Ordeal of Change, by Eric Hoffer – Pub 1963
The Ordeal of Change I first stumbled upon the name Eric Hoffer when reading about Ronald Coase, a Noble Prize laureate in Economics who was known to regularly present the Eric Hoffer "Hat Full of Peas" award … Read More
2003 Local Court & County Record Retrievers/ Doing Business in Emerging Markets
2003 Local Court & County Record Retrievers BRB Publications ISBN 1-879792-71-0 600 pages $39.95 http://www.brbpub.com/books/details.asp?ProductID=79 1(800) 929-3811 This book contains profiles of over 2,600 … Read More
Media’s Mis-coverage of the Final Encounter with Bin Laden
Media's Mis-coverage of the Final Encounter with Bin Laden Listening to the media coverage of the final encounter with Bin Laden I am reminded of a quote by Mark Twain, "If you don't read the newspaper, you're … Read More
February Snow Brings April Insurance Claims
February Snow Brings April Insurance Claims There are several forecasts predicting severe flooding for the central Midwest and east. The snow has fallen and has not melted, thus no gradual dispersion of water. All … Read More
A peek at what we are reading
A peek at what we are reading Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, by Richard Henry Dana Jr. Pub 1840 Simple Rules for a Complex World, by Richard A. Epstein, Pub 1985 (timeless) KGB, … Read More
The Poisoner’s Handbook, by Deborah Blum
The Poisoner’s Handbook By Deborah Blum - published by Penguin Press ISBN 978-59420-243-8 at $25.95 This is a book about intentional poisonings at the dawn of forensic science, and how detectives begin to catch … Read More
Secretariat
Secretariat The movie Secretariat chronicles the successes and failures of owner Penny Tweedy and "Big Red" (aka Secretariat). In the beginning of the movie Penny is happily ensconced as a suburbanDenverhousewife … Read More
Touring Bicycles
Touring Bicycles If racing bikes were sports cars, touring bicycles would be pickup trucks. Touring bikes are designed to carry gear. Touring bikes have fittings that allow racks to be mounted, and to the racks you … Read More
P.J. O’Rourke on The Wealth of Nations
P.J. O’Rourke on The Wealth of Nations This book is part of a Series of books published by Atlantic Monthly Press called “ Books That Changed The World”. While P.J. O’Rourke is better known for his dry wit … Read More