Monthly Archives: April 2014

It’s official – change your Healthcare.gov password

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Fred Stiening

If the point of Heartbleed is actually payback to the Linux hacker community by Microsoft, it’s working. The speed with which a highly sensitive chunk of code written by a volunteer and rushed to implementation without adequate peer review is … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Internet Insecurity, Obamacare | 7 Comments

Web site plan…

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Fred Stiening

If you were silly enough to try to use the system at 3 am (ET), you found it was down. The primary reason was that installed a battery backup that hopefully will keep the system from crashing from momentary outages, … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide | 46 Comments

Plan B

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The reason for the flurry of videos is WordPress just made it easy to upload iPhone videos to the blog. If the Charlotte thing fell through, this is probably where I would have landed. This condo project was a fiasco … Continue reading →

Posted in Art's Big Adventure | 14 Comments

In the radio news

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Michael Graham of Boston (of the now defunct WTKK-FM talk station) is heading to Hotlanta Georgia at WYAY-FM, which is running a mixed news / News talk format. Atlanta is the home of Cumulus Media, who just so happen to … Continue reading →

Posted in IHeart Media, Westwood One | 4 Comments

Riding the Blue Line to Harlem

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The Blue Line of the CTA was extended to O’Hare airport, running in the median of the freeway – this is the newest part of the CTA system (the Dan Ryan part was just rebuilt in the last year, however) … Continue reading →

Posted in Art's Big Adventure | 6 Comments

The Loop

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Fred Stiening

There are few sounds as magical as standing on the street in the Chicago Loop when a CTA train rumbles by Lake Street near State Street

Posted in Art's Big Adventure | 2 Comments

The end of the world

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Turn your head sideways The picture is not as important as the audio. The people who have been here for a long time know that I lived In Chicago for about a year and a half in an apartment about … Continue reading →

Posted in Art's Big Adventure, Totally random stuff | 9 Comments

Surviving a nuclear detonation

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Fun reading Back in the 1980s, I pondered the idea of – pretend you are a Soviet planner and have 1000 nuclear missiles to target at the United States. Think about where you would send them and how much you … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Global Instability, War and not War | 24 Comments

HHS Secretary falls on her sword, Obama endorses Vietnam war

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Fred Stiening

And NASDAQ crashes Quite a news day

Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments

US Steel plant in Gary slowed by Global Warming

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This year has seen the largest buildup of ice on the Great Lakes since we started keeping records. The US Steel Mill in Gary Indiana has run low on materials. A steel mill furnace cannot be turned off – if … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments