More than six months ago, I posted about the U.S. Army’s Field Manual FM 3-01.80 (27.5MB PDF!) and the minor inaccuracies contained therein. Attempts to get any kind of response from either the Air Defense Artillery School or Training and Doctrinal Command were unsuccessful, and I - and many others - were left wondering just how long the “useless” FM was going to remain. On that subject, I have an interesting bit of news to share, and an opportunity for you - yes, you - to help Uncle Sam make “Visual Aircraft Identification” everything it could have been.
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As the world lived through the magical month of September, 2007 one day at a time, things were fairly busy here, as well. The usual month-in-review doesn’t have much this time around, so we’ll do things rapid-fire style. I made 28 posts last month, down nine from the month before. What I lacked in prolificness and profundity I made up in other ways - whether in inventing a holiday, sharing pirated government software, helping spread antiterrorism training and information-awareness training, or just poking fun at the Navy and their views of the internet, there was a little something for everyone, and it showed - thanks in part to the widespread attention the “alien life forms” and “narcissistic praise junkies” presentation generated, September was by far the busiest month to date for this site. It wasn’t just the fun and entertaining fluff pieces that drew traffic, either; a whole lot of visitors were drawn to past posts on things like encrypting bittorrent traffic, or even encrypting all your internet traffic.

Whew.

Yes, it’s the first weekday of the month (holiday notwithstanding), and that means it’s time for the once-a-month (unless I forget, whoops), highly-meta self-referential administrative post we all know, love, and ignore.
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It’s the first of the month, and you know what that means, right? The most boring post of the month is here - monthly housekeeping. Hey, you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to…
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I really should know better than to brag (?) about the highest-scoring spam comment stopped by Spam Karma on this blog, as I did yesterday. Then, I was impressed by the stupidity of a guy dumb enough to try and spamvertise more than five-hundred website addresses in a single comment, scoring a karma of negative 290,146. I thought that was a lot. Boy, was I wrong!
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