PYP: Protecting Your Petabytes

I've been brainstorming on the name for a security summit we're hosting in January. So far I've kind of liked:

• T3: Tools, Training and Tales of Network Security
• SHS: Safe Hex Summit
• PYP: Protecting Your Petabytes

Now we'll see what others think. Yes, I realize that the Safe Hex ain't going to make it, but it definitely has the chuckle factor going for it.

Found this nice online glossary when searing for the definition of a Petabyte.

Sleep, Dogs and Blogs

Here's another reason to get walk your dog and get a good night's sleep. And on another topic, I agree with Will Richardson that there's a difference in posting vs. blogging. Maybe that's why I've felt my blog could be so much better with a little more focus and work.

Banana Mocknog

My Florida cousin Rich reminds me that this is eggnog season, and I like his observation that "even if you are a Grinch...and for some odd reason don't like eggnog you've got to admit it is a fun word to say: 'Eggnog'. Those two short syllables with dominating vowel sounds and the alliterative 'G' closing each syllable - say it over and over and it feels like your tongue is doing a little dance."

Of course "banana" as in "bananafannafoefannafeefifoefannabanana" can be fun, too, which brings me to this recipe for Banana Mocknog...

1 banana that's starting to turn brown
1 cup of crushed ice
1/4 cup of milk
a few drops vanilla extract
a dash of nutmeg
a dash of cinnamon

Throw this all in your blender for about 30 seconds. Pour into a glass, garnish with some more nutmeg, and enjoy.

Although you have no eggs, no refined sugar, very little cholesterol and fat, you do have a smoothie that tastes a lot like eggnog and has all the benefits of banana--dietary fiber, potassium, and vitamins B6 and C.

Another banana thought:
http://rfin.blogspot.com/2003/02/banana-sits-on-top-of-radio-on-my-desk.html

(Variation: I tried substituting real eggnog for the milk the other day, but didn't like it as much as the guilt-free version.)

puddle

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This is not a fuddled, wuddled, poodled, noodled, paddled, battled, puddle. It's just a sunny puddle.

Rain on Campus

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Sunday morning on the back porch

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My son was the first to notice the extradorinary quality of the sunlight yesterday morning. I was headed out for some reading and journal writing, but when he came in with camera in hand, I thought I'd better get my camera, too.