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Notes from Underground: Oil Matters Everywhere, and There is No Alternative in Sight (book review)
Wall Street Journal
July 2, 2010

On June 13, 2010—merely Day 55 in the nightmare of the Deep Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico—a fleet of naked bicyclists rode the streets of Manhattan to protest oil and BP, the company whose reputation is now so badly stained by a well that will not stop gushing. YouTube immortalized this high-minded protest, showing us protesters riding along proudly and chanting "more ass, less gas." Oil brings out the worst in a lot of people, as Tom Bower makes abundantly clear in "Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century."

Will Exxon Get Googled?
American Spectator
November 2008

The image of the oil industry is captured (admittedly, delicously) by Bruce Willis play the rough-and-ready character of an oil roughneck in the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster Armageddon - driving golf balls off an oil platform aimed at a Greenpeace ship. Dirty, tough, old-world, almost Jurassic.  Oil, in short, is seen as old tech. So yesterday.

Security Squared: The Future of Industry is in Convergence
Security Products Magazine
February 2007

At the most basic level, there are just two types of security: physical security to protect people and assets, and information security to protect bits and bytes in data systems. And, information security products are generally more intelligent than physical security products. The future of physical security is in convergence.

James Bond or Jack Bauer? Two Models for Tech Security Policy
Homeland Security Today
January 2007

Publicly and behind closed doors, an increasingly vocal faction of experts claims we need an Apollo-type program to create new technologies for homeland security and military force protection. Some may miss the days — and the model — of the Bell Labs. Some are unreformed Cold Warriors — the Manhattan Project is their analogy. All are well intentioned, but all are quite wrong.

Will Cheaper Oil Burst the Energy Tech Bubble?
Energy Central Network/EnergyPulse
November 16, 2006

With oil prices sinking, not soaring … will investors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley lose interest in energy technology? Not hardly. But in the cold dawn of more “rational” oil prices, investors and policy makers will fare better keeping in mind seven energy realities.

Technologists vs. Terrorists
CSO Online
October 10, 2006

Technology is not a magic bullet that will render impotent all threats. But the nascent security tech revolution will make us safer, and soon.

Whipsawed by Oil
New York Sun
May 2, 2006

My, how times have changed. In 1993, the Clinton administration proposed an energy tax equivalent to just $4 a barrel of oil. The proposal earned a prompt bipartisan slap-down. Even though most believed the tax would reduce oil demand, everyone worried the tax would hammer the economy. Instead, by 1999, oil collapsed briefly to $10 a barrel (how soon we forget), followed by the 600% rise to today's price. The economy? With the DOW at record highs, Wall Street hammered the forecasts of oil-economy pundits, and demand for oil actually rose modestly. What happened?