Musings of Wired Pig

From: Oregon Live -
There are going to be 100 more Oregon State Troopers on the roads soon. The state legislature has approved a $327 million budget for the OSP that includes 100 new troopers.
The only area that OSP will be lacking after the new troopers are hired and fielded will be 24/7 coverage. The House [...]

From: SpaceRef.com and EMail -

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Last week, Lockheed Martin announced that its profits were up a hefty 60 percent in the first quarter. The company earned $591 million in profit on revenues of $9.2 billion. Now, if the company could just figure out how to put a [...]

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From: ODMP.org and Officer.com -
Officer West responded to a disturbance call on Altamont Avenue, near South Taylor Road. A fight over a woman had broken out at a large party at the location. Police dispatchers assigned three cruisers to the disturbance. Officer West pulled down Altamont Avenue going east, followed by another cruiser.
A third cruiser [...]

This is a bit of a gripe and thanks.
Yesterday was my 40th birthday… or the 1st anniversary of my 39th birthday… however you look at it.
It was a very mellow and low key day. We all slept in. My eldest was not home, she decided to spend the weekend at a friends. Oh well.
We took [...]

On this memorial day please pray for our troops safe return. Say thank you when you see a service member. And remember the freedoms that the military has afforded you and your families.
The photo above was taken by me at Fort Logan National Cometary, Denver, Colorado on Memorial Day, 2001. It is entitled Keeping [...]

Pepper
Originally uploaded by Wired Pig.
Playing with PS3 and Lightroom.
This is a photo of Pepper. It was taken on the lawn of my wifes work on 052507.

Today my site was hit 801 times from IP 66.90.101.66 (V) with a user agent string of Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IDBot/1.0; +http://www.id-search.org/bot.html) . I was hit at a rate of a page a second.
Visiting www.id-search.org/bot.html shows that this bot does not adhere to robots.txt. From the [...]

From: ODMP.org -
Agent Jose Fontanez-Correa was shot and killed as he and other officers attempted to arrest a suspect in a high narcotics trafficking area.
One of the suspects fled into nearby woods and was pursued by Agent Fontanez-Correa. The suspect opened fire, striking him once.
The suspect was taken into custody a short time later. Agent [...]