Caught Looking
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October 31, 2005
Round 2
Out of the gate
Time to hit the road.
Ready for lift off.
A hunting we will go.
First Grade Fright
OOTO today so I watched Katherine's Halloween parade.
October 30, 2005
Trick or Treat
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Last Rose of the Season
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Reporting for Duty
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Tear Drop
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Sunday Sunset
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Air Force One
Saturday night we went to a high school fund raiser at the new Air Force One Pavilion at Ronald Reagan Library. What a great exhibit. It's a large 3 level building with the Air Force One Boeing 707 (retired Sept. 8, 2001) used by President Reagan, the Marine One helicopter along with the limousine and other vehicles used in the motorcade. The 707 is bolted to 3 concrete pillars, 50 feet in the air. The most suprising thing for me is the utter lack of opulence in Air Force One. We're talking vinyl and sheep skin seats, faux wood finishes and seats you'd literally have to climb into. The Trump jet this is not.
Part of the event was both a silent and live auction to benefit the high school. We bid on a week in Maui and a puppy. Luckily, we lost both bids. 
October 27, 2005
California Unclaimed Property Search
Doing a quick search in California's Unclaimed Property Search database, I found that I'm owed $43.00 from an old insurance policy. You can search for friends and relatives too, and I've found a few of them are owed money. It pays to surf.
October 26, 2005
Katherine's First Math Test
Katherine took her first math test today. Not sure how she did yet, but in the spirit of the moment, I took the 8th grade math test and passed with flying colors.
| You Passed 8th Grade Math |
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October 25, 2005
Surfs Up - In New York City!
All of a sudden, the brackish waters in New Orleans don't look quite so bad.
A surfer carves a bottom turn on a wave at a city beach in New York Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005. Large waves pounded the northeast Tuesday, as the remnants of Hurricane Wilma churned offshore. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
October 24, 2005
100% Thought
Is the Cuban literacy rate anything like Saddam Hussein winning 100% of the vote? You know, totalitarian government just publishing any number they see fit?
October 22, 2005
New Music Saturday
New music Saturday, courtesy of Tricia. Matisyahu. Hasidic Raggae. Interesting combo (sung in English not Hebrew).
October 21, 2005
Database Security
Symantec Testing Database Security Appliance 
My team at Symantec, Advanced Concepts Group, gets some more publicity with a rewrite of last week's articles and even a GIF.
October 20, 2005
Jupiter Vacation
I imagine this is what a vacation on the planet Jupiter must be like.
A general view of the beach at the resort town of Cancun in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo as Hurricane Wilma approaches October 19, 2005. Described by meteorologists as potentially catastrophic, Wilma dumped rain on the Honduran coast and whipped up winds that briefly reached nearly 175 mph (280 km). Authorities began evacuating 10,000 people in the Mexican coastal state of Quintana Roo and tourists lined up at the airport to escape the beach resort of Cancun, where the storm was due to hit on Thursday. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar
October 18, 2005
It can go in, but it can't come out
While I'm not in the anti-virus group, Fast Company details what happens just down the hall from me. Symantec's Santa Monica division hosts one of Symantec's Security Response Centers. What they do is try to "catch" the latest infection and then quickly write a new signature to block the virus.
"This is the dirtiest of all of our networks at Symantec," says Martin, a senior product manager. "There are special firewalls that protect these machines." And by the door, there's a Hazmat box marked danger. It's for disposing of disks, tapes, and even hard drives, so any viruses they may contain aren't inadvertently released. Explains Martin: "No storage media ever comes out of this room. It can go in, but it can't come out."
The article explains what happens at the day's close. Detecting computer viruses is a 24 hour job. When the day's over in Santa Monica, work is passed on to Tokyo.
The day never ends for Symantec employees charged with outsmarting those bad actors. Every afternoon at 5 p.m., the crew in Santa Monica passes the baton to colleagues in Tokyo, meaning that they become responsible for new threats that appear--and for taking the lead on lingering older threats. "From 5:00 to 5:30, it's the U.S. team's job to brief the Tokyo team," Weafer says. "And in the second half of the hour, the Tokyo team is effectively in control, but they can draw on the U.S. team." At the end of the Japanese workday, Tokyo hands off to Dublin, and at 8 a.m. in California, the baton returns to Santa Monica.
Halloween for the pets
Both my dogs just happen to be white. Hmmm. Guess they won't be going as dalmations this year.
October 16, 2005
Satuday Sunset
Katherine poses for a Saturday night sunset.
Saturday Soccer
October 14, 2005
Festival 2005
The cousins were out for the festival at Katherine's school. It's a long three days (with Suzy working 28 hours in the kitchen), but it is fun. Who can argue with a with a religous school that has it's own margarita tent?
And now it can be revealed
What have I been doing at my new job at Symantec? Well, nothing quite so dramatic as what this article suggests... Symantec to unleash 'Big Brother' on the world. It's not going to take over the world; just monitor database queries.
October 13, 2005
Site Migration
Since Dave and I are out of the web hosting business, BigFrog needed a new home. Unfortunately, I don't have the disk space of the old site, so the photo galleries will have to go away for a while (thinking about moving them to Flickr). But, the advertiser supported Baby Growth Chart is already up, and this blog should be restored in the next few days.
