Here’s another photo from our splendid little calendar. This was taken in 1998, on the island of Curacao— which, you will be surprised to know, is a part of Amsterdam, the city in Holland. Even today Curacao remains a part of the Dutch Empire, and administratively the island is a part of Amsterdam. This relationship […]

Here in New Mexico, we have many traditions for celebrating Sir Isaac Newton’s Birthday on December 25th. We eat tamales, we stew up some posole, we light bonfires, we set little candles inside brown paper bags, and we decorate the graves of our ancestors with lights. I’m not doing any of that this year, I […]

So I’m back from the Left Coast. I got to New Mexico just in time to be hammered by the same winter storm that had hammered California three days earlier. I feel doubly blessed. I seem to have a new, albeit temporary, writing job. A very intense one. One that I still can’t actually talk […]

“It’s all-out cyberwar toe-to-toe with the Russkies!” In 2008, the US military will start to fund a new Air Force “Cyberspace” Command (which will essentially attempt to create an ability for the US to wage warfare within civilian information infrastructures). As is typical with most post-conventional military efforts, the new command will sport: A huge […]