Stone, Surgery and Recovery

This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain.  I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room.  Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder.  That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....

21 Oct 2013 · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink

NSA and Security, Again

Or: What I knew, what I thought I knew, and what I really didn't know. I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed.  This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.  Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....

3 Jul 2013 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized....

2 Jul 2013 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

No Project Without A Tweet

You should be able to describe your business project in 140 characters or less. I don't have more time than that.   -- @GAVollink I've been following along with a pilot training program that was recently launched where I work.  One section of it is on a project definition framework.  I have never liked this framework, and only today - while responding to the trainer on another inquiry, did I finally understand why....

22 Feb 2013 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink