Publications by Eric Niewoehner
A collection of photographs of Missouri trees and shrubs surrounding Rachel’s prairie, a one acre patch of ground with a pond. Even though the focus of this journal is on a prairie, I have to concede that the life I witness on the prairie is framed by the trees and shrubs that surround it. While…
Who are the probationary workers that were fired? Why? And why are they being hired back? I have been laid-off only once in my professional career. It was no surprise. I was a grain trader for a large Midwest cooperative and they had decided to close down the grain division. So I saw this was…
What is a retired federal employee’s take on the request from DOGE to submit five bullet points? The Department on Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently stirred up considerable controversy when it used the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send e-mails to all government employees demanding that they list five things they accomplished during the week….
Can somebody explain a brute force attack from a Microsoft IP address? Websites are easy targets for various network attacks simply because they are available to the public. What protects a website from being “hacked” is a rather thin veneer of passwords, strengthened by a range of firewall measures. WordPress, a popular platform on which…
From The Jesus Chronicles. 1The change was dramatic. One day this cadre of a dozen men devoted to Jesus were suddenly followed by 5,000 souls, many declaring Jesus king. Two days later they were reduced to the twelve, plus a few of the followers of John the Baptist. And the twelve knew now that they…