Archive for February, 2008

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Support Group Identified

Matthew Levitt in CounterTerrorism Blog reports on the Treasury Department’s identification of four individuals who are a part of the Abu Ghadiyah Network.
While we focus on the terror on the ground, it is a truism that money is the lifeblood of this modern incarnation of evil. The article notes that as early as 2003, [...]

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PCs for the Masses?

Google’s Google Apps and the ready availability of broadband internet service makes “distributed computing” seem closer than ever.
I’ve always liked having a PC with plenty of power and memory, but to be honest, I know plenty of people who never use 1/10th the power and memory for the applications they actually use. Sure, they [...]

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Redeployment: Failure on the Installment Plan

The proposed “redeployment” of American troops out of Iraq on a published timetable, and Sen. Obama’s assertion that the United States would reserve the right to re-enter Iraq after a withdrawal of US forces to hunt down Al-Qaeda militants, is remarkably similar to the situation prior to the recent counter insurgency policy.
Obama’s plan would [...]

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CEO Pay: a scandal?

Stats are like mushrooms; they always pop up, but you never know if they are OK … or poison.
CEO pay is roundly criticized, with folks like the AFL-CIO lamenting that the S&P 500 CEOs made an average of $15.06 million in total compensation in 2006. But, as usual, the dramatic stats might just be [...]

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Google Sitemaps Made Easy

Google loves sitemaps, and webmasters love Google. But who wants to code a sitemap, with its weird listing of all the URLs on your site? Time is money.
GSiteCrawler from SOFTplus crawls your website and creates the sitemap for you, uploads it and notified Google that you have a new sitemap. Its pretty [...]

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