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While I hate that Christmas music is playing, I love it that it’s Asleep at The Wheel….Let it play, let it play, let it play!

Another hole in Metro's security alert system uncovered by the Tennessean in the wake of the stolen Election Commission laptops:

Employees of the election commission and Metro Information Technology Services had learned on Dec. 26 that a computer router stolen along with the laptops had been unpl

Two laptop computers containing 337,000 Nashville voters' Social Security numbers were stolen as the building's security guard listened to Christmas music, ordered food and visited the break room, failing to make his hourly rounds, reports The Tennessean.

WCBS obtained video (you can also see the video here if you have trouble downloading at CBS) taken by a whistle blower of his fellow Wackenhut security guards sleeping on the job in a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. The former security guard--who was not among the guards rehired by Wackenhut after the story aired and the company lost a contract--took

A lot has been uncovered and discussed on the subject of the

Last night, NBC Nightly News aired Lisa Meyers’ story on identity theft (video clip here). The piece talks about how state and county governments make identity theft easy by making personal information like Social Security numbers readily available.

I’m not making any, but I figured I should write some type of post to round out 2007. The closest thing I have to a 2008 Resolution is the plan to clean up and reorganise my home office space. As I look at my desk now I see:

Christmas morning now requires an engineering degree and very patient children.

Does anyone know why a child's toy that cost $12.99 comes packaged in a heavy cardboard box, tied down tight with industrial strength twist ties, and further secured by screws that attach it to a thick plastic base inside the box?

Really. Anyone?

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Here's a little Christmas music for you, with me on guitars and Donna Beasley on vocals and percussion. Marco Giovino joined us on drums for "The Little Drummer Boy".

I'm not ashamed to admit that I own every single Billy Joel album ever released. My favorite Billy Joel albums mostly cycle through Glass Houses, The Nylon Curtain, and 52nd Street. I also really dig The Stranger, and I'll always regard An Innocent Man as the first album I ever owned. I taught myself piano because I wanted to be a mid-west Billy Joel when I grew up. Billy used to say at every single concert, "Don't take any sh*t from anybody!". While he tried hard to make it his catchphr