Archive for June, 2007

Glasgow Airport: new phase of coordinated attacks?

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

The Glasgow Airport incident, which certainly looks like a terrorist attack at this point, makes one fear we may be entering a new phase of terrorist activity.
Instead of the thwarted simultaneous attacks on airliners in 1995 and 2006 and 9/11, could we be facing widely dispersed attacks in a limited time frame that would create […]

London bomb a reminder anyone everyone can play role

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

It was an ambulance crew tending to its primary responsibilities who first detected the smoke in a parked Mercedes and thereby avoided an horrific explosion. That’s a reminder that anyone, not just the police, may be the one to detect a potential terrorist attack in the making.
However, to do that we need the kind of […]

Anoto: possible answer to part of the passport mess

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

My son and I were ensnared in the passport mess earlier this month when I belatedly remembered that we’d need them to join my wife at her conference in Vancouver.
Unlike many of the people who did what they were supposed to, and applied months in advance, we actually got ours (BTW, a shout-out to the […]

Intel’s Mobile Internet Devices

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Sorry for the gap between posts. The issues that kept me from blogging have been resolved, so hopefully the pace will pick up again.
MassHighTech reports that Intel is working on a new class of mobile devices, Mobile Internet Devices and Ultra Mobile PCs, which are hybrid combinations of laptops and cell phones. Needless to […]

Rest in peace, SFC Greg Sutton

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I’m just back from a week in the wilds of British Columbia and Alberta, and wrapping up a white paper on networked homeland security, but felt compelled to break silence with this post.
I mark the death of SFC Greg L. Sutton, the gunner for the team my son commands in Iraq (my son was wounded, […]