{"id":9792,"date":"2011-08-05T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T20:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T20:52:52","slug":"wherein-brian-explains-how-he-got-a-lot-of-eastern-bloc-twitter-followers-and-why-dhs-is-no-knocking-on-his-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/wherein-brian-explains-how-he-got-a-lot-of-eastern-bloc-twitter-followers-and-why-dhs-is-no-knocking-on-his-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Brian Explains How He Got A Lot Of Eastern Bloc Twitter Followers And Why DHS Is No-Knocking On His Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I have this tech writing gig where I’m writing documentation for software that generates import\/export documentation for exporters. The software now features the ability to produce documents for ITAR, which is the International Traffic in Arms Regulations<\/a>. So on my technology Twitter Feed<\/a>, I said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today’s user scenario: I am an international arms dealer. No, really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A user scenario, as you know, is describes the mindset and goals of a user interacting with software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Someone responded:<\/p>\n

That’s good. Most of the software I work on is useless to you if you can’t get yourself some arms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Can I interest you in something on our menu? http:\/\/bit.ly\/q6PkGl<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The link goes to a list of codes used in shipping munitions overseas. Comparing this list provided by the United States Customs to the United States Munitions List<\/a>, I discovered that the list was missing one of the munitions categories (even though the Customs data element spec<\/a> says it should be available, but that’s government data integration for you). So I tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Man is holding me down. I can’t sell Directed Energy Weapons abroad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I mean, the Pentagon’s selling its lightning gun on Ebay (http:\/\/t.co\/xZTAwK7<\/a>), and I can’t sell particle beams to the Mongolians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought it was mighty funny. I just hope the Federal agents monitoring the social networks have a sense of humor, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I have this tech writing gig where I’m writing documentation for software that generates import\/export documentation for exporters. The software now features the ability to produce documents for ITAR, which is the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. So on my technology Twitter Feed, I said: Today’s user scenario: I am an international arms dealer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}