Wired magazine once “outed” me as a CIA operative. This, finally, is the absolutely true story from 1998 when an Iranian taxi driver took me against my will to CIA headquarters and held me hostage…

Is somebody throwing away my FOIA requests at Barks­dale AFB, LA?

Irony, anyone? Computer security firm WebSense sends “announcement” emails with no opt-out…

Netbooks bring us one step closer to Jeff Dunte­mann’s vision of a full-blown com­pu­ter lurking under a Star Trek com­mu­ni­ca­tor…

Calling it an encyclopaediae won’t suffice, as it doesn’t signify a mass plural noun. The shortened form “wiki” won’t suffice, as that term now describes any given single compendium of knowledge. I’ll admit ‘wikii’ would suffice, but I strongly suggest we need a dissimilar word to avoid confusion, as it’s too close to both “wiki” and “wikia”…

My hometown is Wellman, Iowa. It’s where I buried the love of my life. It’s where I buried my heart. And it’s where I’ll be buried someday…

Why carry a package 160 miles? Just before it reaches its destination, put it on a 1,200-mile round trip to another state…

Tallil AB, Iraq lacks most of their newspaper issues from 2003. I uploaded them here for posterity…

I certainly didn’t get my free soda despite my best efforts…

I’m unimpressed with Spyware Doctor for failing to detect SpyAxe. And I’m unimpressed with SpyAxe for how easily you can turn off its annoyance factor…