I travel quite a bit on business, and have been through more TSA checkpoints than I wish to count, including here in Houston at Bush Intercontinental Airport. I, like most of the traveling public has put up with the ever-expanding security as we travel, but it seems that the TSA has reached the proverbial tipping …
Category: Technology
Discussion of topics of Computers, Telephony the Internet and more.
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Nov 03
2010 Election: Red Light Cameras to go Dark?
A personal hot-button issue that I have championed against may finally be getting the plug pulled. Red Light Cameras came to Houston under former Mayor Bill White. They have been controversial since their installation, including comments on this blog back in 2007. Today, the voters in the city decided by 52.8% to shut the cameras down. …
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Jul 18
Congress Shall Make No Law…
From the fine folks over at Big Government I got word today of a new blog. Congress Shall Make No Law is brought to you by the Institute for Justice and is covering issues surrounding free speech. Remember the First Amendment to the Constitution reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, …
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Jul 03
3rd Time’s a Charm?
Ok, so I suffered a case of unstable servers, and finally have taken the time to build a new one from the ground up. With any luck the blog will be stable, and I can find more time than once in the last 2 years to post updates.
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Feb 16
Texas Legislature to Make Cameras see RED? (Continued)
As we come to mid-month, more news from Austin on all of the action to stop or slow the spread of the disease known as red light cameras. Two more bills have been filed, House Bill 1570, and Senate Bill 195. House Bill 1570 is identical to the previously discussed Senate Bill 125, requiring that …
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Feb 14
Jamming Houston Police
This week, a man was arrested on the charge of interfering with police communications here in Houston. As someone who spent seven years around the newspaper business, I spent time in the newsrooms of a couple of newspapers in Kansas. The one thing that was always present in those newsrooms was a police scanner, usually …
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Feb 14
Time…
When I envisioned this blog ten months ago, I thought it would be a good sounding board for me to vent issues and ideas. Then I got sidetracked by other things in my life and everything stopped in my corner of the Blogosphere. I decided recently it was time to return, and over the last …
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Feb 09
Legislature to pull the plug on Tasers?
More news coming out of the Austin. Legislator Coleman introduced House Bill 1304, which institutes a moratorium on Taser purchases and use during calendar year 2008. With the current number of Taser related incidents that have happened around the state, it might sound like a good idea. In fact, it, like the Houston Police Department’s chase …
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