Another Front in the IP Wars

So here’s a juicy story: a company in Florida, VisionTech Components, was charged last September with selling counterfeit Chinese chips to US military suppliers.    It doesn’t get more politically fraught than that.  The CEO of the company, Shannon Wren, was a apparently a well-known figure in drag-racing circles – he was the first to drive [...]

The End of the Shuttle and the Start of Nothing

So last Friday I watched the liftoff of the last Space Shuttle on the NASA feed in my office.  I saw it for real once in 1992, when I went down to Florida just for the show.  I had just quit a company after a especially painful project cancellation, and needed something to cheer me [...]