Security alerts involving improvised explosive devices have become almost a weekly occurence in Derry during the past few months as dissident republicans step up their armed actions in the city.
This week, the households were asked to take a part in a "digital detox" where they would use no digital devices for two hours on a week day and on a Saturday or Sunday.
The rhetorical devices his speechwriters love to use have been rejected by him in favour of sticking with this, his original wording.
He also pointed to a proposal in the House "to make sure government agencies don't turn cell phones of Americans into tracking devices" as another target for NSA reformers.
Libin is bullish on the potential of these devices, without shirking some of their current challenges.
Victoria Jaye, head of TV content for the BBC iPlayer, said on a BBC blog there had been a "significant surge in BBC iPlayer usage, as people all over the country un-wrap new devices and take the opportunity to enjoy our terrific range of programmes, at a time that suits them".
"The figures clearly show that people are consuming the news on their mobile devices, phones in particular, but I don't see print disappearing completely".
Customers will be able to try on devices in store, but will be directed to kiosks or the Apple website to order their smartwatch.
Along with the "one Windows for all devices" idea, Microsoft is pushing what it calls "universal Windows apps", which is the new name for apps downloaded from the Windows Store.
That's platform thinking: 200m devices far outnumbers RIM's 70 million subscribers worldwide for BlackBerry Messenger.
But on iOS 5 (available across those 200m devices, remember) you just swipe downwards from the menu bar and you get a view on everything that's changed, with granular detail including what emails have come in (so you can go to them individually) or what events there are to deal with and so on.
