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This website is very much a work in progress… every other foray I’ve had into this has been on formatted, automatic sites where all you do is enter your content—creating every aspect is pretty new to me, and if I ever get good at it, it’s going to take a while. As you’ll notice, I’m not all that creative by nature…

 

So, for now, this homepage will be a very rough place-holder, so I can focus my initial efforts on the blog(s), my most immediate reason for getting this going...

 

 

 

Links

 

The current (actually forthcoming at the moment) iteration of my personal blog: Nomad Notes

Previous Blogs & Sites

 

Iraq’s Human Terrain

A website I maintained from July 2007 to January 2008, during my tenure as Team Leader of one of the original five Human Terrain Teams in Iraq. The website was devoted to sharing resources on Iraq’s population, culture, society, history, politics, economics, etc.

 

Nomad Notes 1.2

My very poorly maintained personal blog during the Iraq Human Terrain deployment. In the vein of the first two iterations of Nomad Notes, this was primarily intended to keep friends and family up-to-date on my goings on…

 

Nomad Notes 1.1

The second half of my year in China. This was a blog started as the successor to Nomad Notes Classic, my first blog whose untimely demise resulted from the collapse of the hosting service, blogzy.

 

Nomad Notes

My first foray into blogging, and my attempt at sharing my life in China with my friends and family. Can’t believe I could have been wrong to trust a host with a name like “Blogzy”, but this website is now defunct. I have an archive of this on a computer back home, so hopefully I’ll get it up here on mattvtom at some point…

 

Bloglines Public Page

Bloglines is my preferred RSS (News) Reader. Actually, I tend to switch back and forth between BL and GreatNews, but it’s been BlogLines lately. This is the roll-up of what I’m reading each day (when I get to it all, of course…

 

MyHQ WebLinks

The very first of anything I did on the web. This is a VERY basic links page—for the longest time my preferred web-based alternative to bookmarks. Ideally this’ll be replaced with a links page on this site soon, but MyHQ was my first, and its beta version is a pretty good update, although I haven’t done anything with the content to take advantage of the new capabilities…

 

Old DefenseTech Posts

 

Nork Fallout: Asia Arms Race?

So here we are, 36 hours later, and everybody is still talking about North Korea's nuclear test. But despite all the nervous chatter...

Posted in Defense Tech on October 10, 2006 11:23 AM

 

China Wants Weapons Whizzes

Forget buying arms -- the real way to develop your military is buying arms designers. The seems to be the verdict of China's PLA…

Posted in Defense Tech on October 3, 2006 04:04 PM

 

Beijing Feeds the Hype

In the last few days, China has voiced its disapproval of the new Pentagon report evaluating China’s military. The comments have been…

Posted in Defense Tech on May 29, 2006 07:37 AM

 

Yellow Peril's Annual Comeback

Did you miss it? I’m a little out of the loop on the far side of the Pacific, so I did. But yesterday was the annual “CHINA IS COMING TO GET US!!” day…

Posted in Defense Tech on May 24, 2006 12:05 PM

 

Censorship's Silver Lining

By now the numerous slights – both deliberate and accidental – during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington are well known…

Posted in Defense Tech on April 27, 2006 11:24 AM

 

Asia's Other Big Market

“When you look at this market and the opportunities, it’s mind boggling.” For a few years now, it’s been impossible to pick up a newspaper…

Posted in Defense Tech on April 18, 2006 07:57 AM

 

Big Payoff for New Scale

A new scale being tested by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) could end up giving units a little extra time to train just before rapid deployments…

Posted in Defense Tech on April 17, 2006 08:59 AM

 

NASA, China in Space Link?

The Chinese National Space Administration recently invited NASA’s head to visit China. The hope is that would be the first step in future cooperation…

Posted in Defense Tech on April 10, 2006 09:15 AM

 

China's R&D: Don't Freak

China is about to pass the U.S. in the development of defense and commercial technology. And they're gonna take our lunch money too...

Posted in Defense Tech on April 4, 2006 08:20 AM