This won’t scale
I’m a software engineer. One concept that constantly comes up in software engineering is "scaling". We have to make sure any systems we write ar...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Advocating staying in debt
Why do financial advisers seem to constantly advise people to stay in debt? Recently Adam Hatter wrote a story on Yahoo! Finance detailing how he and his wife p...
Lightning round
Last night, May 28, some strong to severe thunderstorms rolled through the Kansas City area. There were some heavy lighting strikes with it as well. A strike th...
Listen to law enforcement
Securing your home is about one thing: never leave a potential point of entry without any kind of hindrance to an intruder. It is impossible to make your home 1...
Losing a friend
My parents adopted Jake as puppy from the Animal Lifeline of Iowa. He was tiny as a puppy, and he was definitely a puppy. Those are my shoes he’s near. Si...
Misconceptions about Miranda
Mirandizing suspects is one of the most recognized of police actions, but also one of the least understood. Many people have numerous misconceptions about how t...
Thank you, Wal-Mart
Today while out on my lunch break, I stopped by the Wal-Mart Supercenter that is a couple miles from where I work. I keep a stock of soda in my desk, and runnin...
Revisiting Miranda
As a person who owns a blog that doesn’t really get a lot of hits, I tend to notice when one article gets a lot of hits over anything else. Recently, the ...
Open letter to Gabrielle Giffords
Madam Representative Giffords, One thing I find incredulous, if not insulting, is the constant assertion by you, your husband, and other gun control proponents ...
Feinstein’s bill fails miserably
Today in the Senate, seven (7) amendments were introduced for Reid’s gun control bill, S. 649 – the "Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013"...
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