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A weblog of interest only to members of the United States Air Force's Full Spectrum Threat Response community, also known as Civil Engineer Readiness. Air National Guard and Air Reserve are welcome. This weblog is unofficial, but we're promoting it as an alternative to overused and ineffective Gigantic E-mail Distribution Lists.
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Epitaph
There's a reason I stopped posting here. It goes something like this:
As I was launching the blog, I was trying to find out how many members of the 3E9 community were able to see the blog from their NIPR networks. I couldn't see it from my own. I called the network geeks who controlled the web proxy, asking them whether the filter in the proxy could be opened to allow this content through. They said they'd get back to me.
Get back to me they did. The geek contractor said that some cheese-d1ck lieutenant referred the website to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Maybe that cheese-d1ck lieutenant thought what I was trying to do was somehow hurtful to the Air Force.
In a deep funk, I pulled off some content that could be even remotely compromising, and posted that it will go dark. But I couldn't bring myself to pull the plug on it entirely.
Since then, I've mellowed out about it, and the USAF is actually getting an inside-the-fence website built up, specifically for the 3E9 career field. However, since HQ staff types and subject matter experts are behind the effort, the website will look just like a gigantic file cabinet. Stuff about DCG in one folder of one drawer, stuff about NBC protective equipment in another folder of a different drawer. No continuous flow of information as it appears, no place for feedback. Just "find what ever you need".
I contacted the contractors that are building the site and suggested they look at MoveableType and Blogger, to get a feel for weblog capabilities. I think the person I communicated with directly understands the difference---we need a newsletter rather than an encyclopedia---and he promised that he'd look at what apps are available and within their budget. But of course it won't happen quickly if ever.
I still can't bring myself to pull the plug on this place. If it cost me a buck a month, it would already be dead and dried up. Sitemeter shows that it still gets hits, though these are probably only email address harvesters for spammers. So what.
See ya.
As I was launching the blog, I was trying to find out how many members of the 3E9 community were able to see the blog from their NIPR networks. I couldn't see it from my own. I called the network geeks who controlled the web proxy, asking them whether the filter in the proxy could be opened to allow this content through. They said they'd get back to me.
Get back to me they did. The geek contractor said that some cheese-d1ck lieutenant referred the website to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Maybe that cheese-d1ck lieutenant thought what I was trying to do was somehow hurtful to the Air Force.
In a deep funk, I pulled off some content that could be even remotely compromising, and posted that it will go dark. But I couldn't bring myself to pull the plug on it entirely.
Since then, I've mellowed out about it, and the USAF is actually getting an inside-the-fence website built up, specifically for the 3E9 career field. However, since HQ staff types and subject matter experts are behind the effort, the website will look just like a gigantic file cabinet. Stuff about DCG in one folder of one drawer, stuff about NBC protective equipment in another folder of a different drawer. No continuous flow of information as it appears, no place for feedback. Just "find what ever you need".
I contacted the contractors that are building the site and suggested they look at MoveableType and Blogger, to get a feel for weblog capabilities. I think the person I communicated with directly understands the difference---we need a newsletter rather than an encyclopedia---and he promised that he'd look at what apps are available and within their budget. But of course it won't happen quickly if ever.
I still can't bring myself to pull the plug on this place. If it cost me a buck a month, it would already be dead and dried up. Sitemeter shows that it still gets hits, though these are probably only email address harvesters for spammers. So what.
See ya.
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