King - Last Sunday’s post was an attempt to document some of my reasons for having a contrarian opinion about “the China threat”. It’s the first time I have collected my thoughts on the topic in one place, and I appreciate the excuse that external criticism gives me to arrange and refine my point […]
China Defense - Today, when I heard about the botched attempt by the U.S. to bug the Chinese President’s personal aircraft (come on, how many freekin’ bugs did they need, anyway?), I remembered that I owe Tom Wiebe a response to his critique of my previous pro-China piece. First, today’s finding should reinforce what […]
Long Knives - The HP saga just gets more insane. One HP board member writes a letter explaining why he voted against the rest of the board, so the rest of the board writes a letter calling him a senile kook. Paraphrased, “he’s a musician and academic who knows nothing about business.” […]
China - Speculation about the Chinese government’s reasons for recently endorsing Red Flag Linux have, IMO, missed the point. They aren’t interested in Red Flag because it is Linux; they’re interested in Red Flag because it is Chinese, and completely under control of Chinese. The Chinese leadership is notorious for being extremely wary […]
Serious - I reported a while ago that Brian Valentine has been assigned to head up efforts to improve security across all Microsoft products and the rest of the industry. Brian is famous internally for being a “hammer guy”. That is, he is the 50,000 pound daisycutter bomb that gets dropped when you […]