George Pataki: The Obama Administration’s Systemic Failure on Terrorism

Following the Christmas Day near-disaster on an international flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, President Obama referred to a “systemic failure” of our nation’s intelligence sharing. He is right in referring to a systemic failure, but it is not just in intelligence sharing. From day one, the Obama Administration’s anti-terror policies have amounted to a systemic failure that have placed our country’s security in grave jeopardy. As one who has seen and experienced the consequences of prior failures ..read more

Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again. (TechCrunch)

Another day, another Rackspace outage. The hosting company had a complete and total failure today that took down a number of big sites on the Internet, including ours. This has been happening all too often in recent months, including downtime just last month.

The failure apparently originated in the company’s Dallas-area server farm. But unlike previous times, this does not appear to be a power issue, the company says. Some other sites that are currently affected include: 37signals, Brizzly, Scoble’s blog, ..read more

Is the grass always greener everywhere else?

[SP EXCLUSIVE]

“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.” —Thomas Edison

I’m never content.

And apparently, I’m in good company. I just read an article that says the entire planet is also “restless.” (Translation: Seismic activity has been and is likely to continue increasing.) Well, at least my restlessness doesn’t result in devasting earthquakes.

Being restless can be frustrating: Something new, something better, is always across the ..read more