The hits keep coming.

Back around 2010, zipping along I-95 South, I spied a roadside billboard from a major defense contractor featuring a CGI soldier clad in Halo-style armor and sporting the tagline “SAIC — now …

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[Find a podcast version here.] “There goes another domino”, I thought upon reading an FT piece covering Spain’s “noooooooop” to the US’s F-35 in favor of a Europ…

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[Find a podcast version here.] “Argh, again with shooting the messenger!”, I found myself thinking on Friday when news broke of Trump firing Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEnt…

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[Find a podcast version here.] “Argh, again with the root file system writes!”, I lamented recently, while helping a client port the enterprise version of an open source product from He…