Author: phoneboy

When I first started supporting Check Point FireWall-1–which is what the product was back in 1996, this is what the User Interface looked like. A lot has changed in those days. For one, it doesn’t run on SunOS or Solaris anymore. Management still runs on Solaris, but not in R75.40VS or R76 and above. And…

They say that you remember only the good things as time goes on. I suppose it depends on who or what it is you are remembering things about. I have been thinking about my parents. Given recent events, that’s an entirely natural thing, I suppose. The times I remember with my mom are many. Some…

I honestly can’t remember when this picture was taken. Had to have been 20 years ago. Really doesn’t matter now. On the left, my mother. On the right, my step-father Richard. What I do know is that I will never see my mother again. Not in the flesh, anyway. As I mentioned in other places,…

This explanation makes nothing but sense.

I”>http://www.salon.com/2013/05/18/were_living_in_an_ayn_rand_economy_partner/”>I agree with the title of this article in Salon, but the writer clearly doesn’t understand Ayn Rand’s philosophy or what’s really happening in the world. Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” fantasizes a world in which anti-government citizens reject taxes and regulations, and “stop the motor” by withdrawing themselves from the system of production. In…

Many years ago, my wife bought me a really fancy Monopoly set. It doesn’t get used all that often but it’s quite the set!

From Weird 1972 Experiment in Marijuana Use: In the winter of 1972, 20 young women took part in one of the weirdest scientific experiments in this country’s history. For 98 days in a downtown Toronto hospital, their brains, hearts, kidneys, livers, blood and urine were rigorously tested and analyzed. A team of nurses kept round-the-clock…

Aside from No Agenda, I also am a regular listener to the Corbett Report, which provides another data point in my quest to find out the truth of what’s actually happening in the world. In 2010, James Corbett recorded this piece on False Flags, which started making the rounds again shortly after the explosions in…

I have a lot of thoughts about what happened today in Boston. Unfortunately, none of them are going to be particularly popular. While it is certainly a tragedy that people needlessly lost their lives today in the bombings that occurred, the real tragedy is only just beginning. When I first heard about this event, my…

I’ve gotten out of the habit of writing blog posts. It’s actually really hard to write something coherent that doesn’t take me an eon to churn out. That’s certainly a lesson I learned with my books that I wrote more than a decade ago. I should have learned that lesson back in 2007. Maybe I…