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Author: Aaron Brazell

  • In Test of Water on Moon, Craft Hits Bull’s-Eye – NYTimes.com

    In Test of Water on Moon, Craft Hits Bull’s-Eye – NYTimes.com.

  • IsItAHoliday.com

    IsItAHoliday.com. – Nah!

  • EarthCam – Webcam Network

    EarthCam – Webcam Network.

  • The Aaron Brazell Train Keeps Rolling

    This post is quick and dirty. Sort of a braindump of sorts. I just want to get it out there as I’m coming in to land with the WordPress Bible and doing a delicate dance of travel, and final deadlines. I’m sitting in Orlando International Airport and processing a lot of thoughts. Saturday, I gave…

  • Congress Moves to Rein in Illegal Wiretaps

    The JUSTICE Act, short for the Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools in Counterterrorism Efforts Act, was brought to my attention today. The JUSTICE Act seeks to put constraints on the Bush-era USA Patriot Act and FISA Act Amendment which drove national security efforts here at home post-9/11. In the past, I have been a very…

  • The Washington Redskins Crowd-sourcing Their Games

    A week before the start of the NFL 2009 season, Cincinnati Bengals Wide Reciever-turned-parttime-kicker, Chad Ochocino, tweeted to his fans that he was going to delete his Twitter account due to strict NFL rules. Of course he didn’t, and Ochocinco, always a showman, used it to deliver more buzz around his ego. However, the NFL…

  • Ethical Questions over Apps.gov

    It’s been no secret since the Obama administration took office, that a key technological interest for the administrations tech policy would involve Cloud-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) initiatives. To that end, contractors and providers have been jockeying to provide cloud service to the federal government. One of these contractors, notable for their size and…

  • Government as a Platform?

    Data, data, data. This is the answer for government in this new world of Government 2.0. Making government available to the citizens by building platforms for change. These are the ideas bandied around when the Silicon Valley Warlords came to Washington, D.C. this week to put on the invitation only Gov 2.0 Summit and teach…

  • WordPress Security and How I’m Going to Take All Your Money

    WordPress Security and How I’m Going to Take All Your Money

    So, it’s happened again. Another vulnerability discovered in WordPress that is now becoming the raging topic around the blogosphere. Is WordPress insecure? Should people move to another platform? If we stomp our feet loud and enough and whine enough, then we can make WordPress look like a ridiculous piece of software that only amateurs should…

  • Suicide League 2009

    Dear {INSERT NAME HERE} :-p Late last night, I had an idea to run a Suicide football league. I’ve done these before, though I admit that this is the first time I’m using a service and not aggregating results by hand. We’ll see how this goes. The concept of a suicide league is painfully simple,…