I’ve Moved!

November 20, 2008

So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:

I AM NO LONGER BLOGGING HERE

In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here.

That said, this is not the end of . My wife has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.

Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.

Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.

Posted by Kenneth Filed in News

Spotted in a Starbucks parking lot

November 29, 2007

Related:

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the greatest threat facing North America is international terrorists smuggling a nuclear weapon onto the continent through a busy container port.

At an Ottawa conference of transportation security experts on Wednesday, MacKay raised the spectre of radicals detonating a crude radioactive device or a conventional nuclear bomb after smuggling it in one of the millions of cargo containers arriving annually on foreign ships.

“The greatest threat to North America right now is on the water,” he told the audience. “With the number of movements of containers coming into this country today, this is an area we have to be completely and extremely vigilant and rigorous in terms of security.”

His assessment of the maritime threat is the bluntest yet and echoes concerns U.S. officials have expressed publicly for years: al-Qaida has nuclear ambitions, is working to develop [its] nuclear capabilities, and just one of the containers arriving annually on North America’s shores could be a Trojan Horse harbouring the unthinkable.

Your daily dose of the new global reality, O Reader.

Posted by Kenneth Filed in Canada, Edmonton, Terrorism