The question of how to verify active duty military status comes up quite a bit. The Department of Defense Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) website provides information relating to active duty active duty status for military members. The site is free to the public, provided that you have some basic information regarding the individual. In […]
I was recently working on a case where I needed to download and PDF a Twitter stream to preserve the information in case the information was deleted or changed at a later date. The simple solution was to create a PDF of the Twitter stream, but when I tried that, it looked like a jumbled […]
Chris Brogan recently wrote an interesting piece about working within constraints. He wrote about a drummer, Reggie, who enjoyed doing a gig with a limited drum set. Instead of working with his normal 30-piece drum set, he was forced to work with what he had, a limited drum set. “This is all I have to […]
Google Maps Satellite View and Street View have always been great tools for developing information relating to an address and the surrounding area. One of the main drawbacks of both Satellite View and Street View, however, was the lack of information as to when the photo was taken. Now you can get the image date […]
Conducting investigative interviewing over the telephone is much different from doing it in person. While doing an investigative interview in person is ideal, you don’t always have the option of flying across the country to do an interview. The difference with doing a telephone interview is that there is an inherent sense of mistrust. In […]
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