Credit Card Grep for EnCase

I was a given a challenge by a colleague to come up with a god grep for credit cards. He had come up with a fairly complicated grep statement that looked for them specific to the domains in which each company operates – one for American Express (3…

Air Travel: Overtaxed & Inefficient

Air travel is overtaxed. I’m not even going to create a link to back that up – all you have to do is look at the price breakdown of your next ticket. I’ve got a flight to London on the 12th of October, and the price breakdown is as follows: Fare: …

On Being Almost Bulletproof – An Update @bulletproofexec

Since reading Dave Asprey’s site on being bulletproof (and his blog), I have been attempting to get as close as possible to being bullet proof. As Dave’s model is based on a more stringent version of the Paleo Diet, I’ve started with the Paleo Die…

If You’ve Got Nothing to Hide, You’ve Got Nothing To Fear – Wrong! @falkvinge

The subject of this post is one of my least favourite phrases in the English language. It’s just plain wrong. For a full list of why it’s wrong, see Rick Falvinge’s excellent post here. The bottom line is that the statement isn’t true by a longsho…

Taxes Drive Away The Wealthy

In what’s sure to only be a temporary measure, France’s richest person has decided to keep his French nationality and pay French taxes after having applied for a Belgian nationality. Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, has suggested that his move has no…

iPhone Millionaire – Book Review @rosenblumtv

One of the greatest comments I’ve received came from Michael Rosenblum, the author of “iPhone Millionaire”. He and his wife Lisa (featured in the book, and in the picture above) taught at the Travel Channel Academy (the precursor to New York Video…

Ah, Credit Reporting

So as I do twice a year, I’ve gotten my credit report to see how I’m doing. I was especially keen to see how it was reported this go as an old account was being dropped off at the seven year mark in August. (This was an account of a phone that I g…