Chris Short

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So I’ve been on a blogging hiatus for quite some time now.  The best I’ve been able to manage are a few philanthropic posts over the past several months.  However, I’m anxiously wanting to get back into blogging my personal life, technology, and politics.
The problem is aggregating news to gleen the best information in the [...]

Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, helps provide voice-controlled and adaptive laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries at major military medical centers. Operating laptops by speaking into a microphone or using other adaptive technologies, our wounded heroes are able to send [...]

By Kyle E. Moore | September 25, 2007
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the [...]

A reporter at WMAR, the local ABC affiliate in Baltimore, lifted a news story from Inside Charm City without giving any credit to anywhere else she might have seen it. The story about the Stop Snitching DVD in the UMBC library was covered on WCBM AM and the publisher* of Inside Charm City was interviewed [...]

Remember the beautiful and lovely Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets? If you don’t you need to find the nearest rock and crawl out from under it. I got an e-mail from Gina last night saying that she is now taking orders for her 2008 benefit calendar. Gina says, “I am [...]

I have a shiny, new 2007 Ford Fusion and in this Ford Fusion I have a Kenwood DNX7100.  The DNX7100 is an all-in-one entertainment and navigation package which fits quite well in double DIN dash board openings.
I have been tinkering with the settings on this system for a few weeks now but the thing that [...]

Remember the beautiful Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets? She has been hard at work on the 2008 Pin Ups for Vets calendar and sent me an e-mail asking for a little bit of help. Here is what she sent:
Chris,It’s Gina…I am coming down to the finish line on the ‘08 calendar! [...]

A few years ago I had to hand it to the US Army.  To a certain extent they encouraged soldiers to blog.  For a long time, they were the only branch of the Department of Defense that even had a policy on blogging.  As far as I know, the US Air Force still doesn’t have [...]

I got an interesting e-mail that was almost a bubble burster for me from GoDaddy today:

Dear Chris Short,
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you? 
Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you [...]