“Data will not help you if you can’t see it when you need it.” –Bill Wasik’s lead in a Wired Magazine article titled “Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone.“ Find this content useful? Share it with…
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!
My preoccupation with the vagaries of language sent me searching this morning for the reason we say “Merry Christmas.” After all, we use the word happy to convey our best wishes for most other holidays, including the New Year, Easter,…
GPS Turns 40: Test Your Knowledge with a Quiz
December 2013 brought two important anniversaries for GPS, a technology that has changed the world, yet both milestones have gone unnoticed in the media. The Pentagon authorized GPS development 40 years ago on Dec. 17, 1973. If GPS were a…
Power of Persuasion…
“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” –Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Tracking Baby Jesus
One of the oddest uses of GPS tracking I found while doing research for the book, GPS Declassified, was the case of a community center in Wellington, Florida, that used it to catch a thief who stole baby Jesus from…
Big(ger) Government
Conservative Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has found an issue on which he favors bigger government–or at least taller government. Issa, who chairs the House committee that oversees the District of Columbia, wants to relax the Height Act of 1910, which…
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adj: dazed after long cyber shopping sessions, compounded by additives to your holiday beverage Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Perspective
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” –John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961 Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
(clō-tur-ize)
v. to stall Senate deliberations until no one can bear to watch; see related: (ful-o-blust-er), (new-cu-ler op-shun) Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
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n: a boss who is asleep at the switch Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!