Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

This is a cool vision by Tom Clancy of the "future soldier" from the Ghost Recon game series.  The mixture of advanced weaponr...

There was significant news this week about the U.S. and Israel making major inroads with cyberwar capabilities .  First, the New Yor...

What a gorgeous day in Washington, D.C. today. Took a little lunchtime walk to enjoy the great city, sipping my Dunkin' along th...

Leaders always seem to be trying to get their message "right". They ponder what will it take to win the hearts and minds. ...

This is a picture of six dancers. They are called Project Bandaloop . They are dancing horizontally. Off the side of a tall buil...

Yesterday there were reports of a new " massive cyber attack " called the Flame. A U.N. Spokesperson called it "the...

A little nostalgia for the talent and creativity of New York.  Sing loud. Dance in the streets.  Show what you can do. Do it!  Y...

We've all had the feeling of being alone, abandoned, and feeling down and out.  As social animals, we crave being with others--e...

I took this photo with a simple iPhone. Couldn't believe these flowers were on the corner in Washington, D.C.  I love how som...

House MD said it first "Everybody lies; the only variable is about what." This weekend's Wall Street Journal (26-27 Ma...

There is a famous saying that "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana  An edito...

This new gesture-recognition technology from Leap Motion is amazing.  "For the first time, you can control a computer in three dim...

There's a big difference between doing something and saying you're going to do something.  Or as I learned early on--words a...

I found an article on the consolation of death "buried" in my papers from a couple of months ago--and I'm glad I did.  ...

There is a famous slogan about "the gift that keeps on giving" that has been used for promoting various products from appli...

Diane Sawyer from ABC News has a great piece here on the Flying Fortress, our Airborne Command Center, for the President and a 50-member e...

There have been a number of leaders who have stepped up to tell people the real risks we are facing as a nation.  They are not playi...

An article this week in the Wall Street Journal (15 May 2012) called us "a nation of whiners." The national insult aside,...

The Wall Street Journal (16 May 2011) had a interesting portrayal this week of the various types of people that tend to spoil meetings...

I.O.U.S.A . (2008) is the best explanation of our nation's financial problems and the deep severity of these that I have ev...

With the Facebook IPO scheduled for this week, valuing the company at as much as $96 billion, many investors according to Bloomberg Busine...

Combine the Seattle Children's Hospital Hemoncology Unit with Kelly Clarkson's song "Stronger," and you have the true es...

There is an editorial in the Wall Street Journal (11 May 2012) called " Make It a Summer Without iStuff ." It is written b...

Cool concert with Hadag Nahash at the Fillmore.  Their name means fish-snake, but what's in a name?  :-) They combine hip-hop, roc...

This is an amazing photo by my daughter, Michelle Blumenthal.  This deer just tried to jump a fence, but got impaled right through i...

Last month, The Daily Beast (2 April 2012) ran a interesting article on "Why Humans, Like Ants, Need [To Belong] To A Tribe....

Information Security, like all security, needs to be managed on a risk management basis .   This is a fundamental principle that was...

I came across two very interesting and concerning studies on cloud computing--one from last year and the other from last month. Here...