A life in words

  • Wireless Mesh Networking As An Agent of Political Subversion

    Just putting this out there as a ‘ping’ to see if anybody else has thought about this. A recent post at One Free Korea inspired an interesting thought. The general idea is that wireless mesh networking technology being developed and deployed these days seems like an ideal foundation for a dissident network disseminating information in…

  • My Blog Be Back

    Once upon a time, a web hosting provider utterly lost the entire site of one of its customers, without any backup. Surprisingly enough, the user in this Brothers Grimm-like cautionary tale was yours truly! Now, after months of neglect, I’m finally getting joshhansen.net back up on its virtual feet. Sorry about the downtime. Unfortunately this…

  • “Broken Spears” and the Book of Mormon

    One of the most interesting books I’ve ever read is “The Broken Spears”—a collection of indigenous and Spanish records documenting the conquest of Mexico shortly after the fact. While reading I unexpectedly noticed parallels with the Book of Mormon record. In fact, I found so many that I began to keep track of them. Some…

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