Why do I hate the war on drugs? Radley Balko explains it for me quite nicely in his Culture 11 article, "War on Drugs: The Collateral Damage." I highly recommend you read it. … [Read more...] about War on Drugs: The Collateral Damage
Now With Amazon CloudFront
People used to talk about how Google was going to build a "web-based operating system." Personally, however, I'm more interested in what Amazon is doing. We all know them as a big retail e-commerce site, but running a site that big requires an incredible amount of web-based infrastructure. For the past few years, they have been commercializing their infrastructure to … [Read more...] about Now With Amazon CloudFront
24: Tech Review
Spoiler Alert: Spoilers for all episodes broadcast so far this season. Well, we're 4 hours into Jack's busy day. He's only killed one person, and it wasn't anyone important, but other than that, this season isn't too bad. It has much more of a thriller feel to it this year, especially compared to last season when it just kind of went through the motions. Still, the standard … [Read more...] about 24: Tech Review
Greenfield and the Genie
Greenfield sighed. He had been reading the discussion over at Simple Justice about the attorney's ethical role in discussing taking a plea, mainly as a way to avoid getting back to thinking about what he was going to say to his own client about the plea offer; the guy was due in the office at the top of the hour.Damn. Double damn. Damn. It didn't look … [Read more...] about Greenfield and the Genie
The Shanghai Solicitation
(Does that title sound like the title of a Ludlum novel?) While I was busy watching 24, someone sent me the following email at one of my other email addresses at a different domain (redactions mine): Dear <domain-name>: We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with … [Read more...] about The Shanghai Solicitation