Over the past several days I feel as though I’ve been part of a Lemony Snicket book.
I’ve had domain registration problems for rebeccaherold.com that are still in the process of being resolved (<<those of you who sent emails to my rebeccaherold@rebeccaherold.com address, it may be another day or two before it works, but yes, I’m still here!)…my notebook computer mouse key went haywire…and today I lost my Internet connection (a wireless tower and wireless dish antennas don’t work well under a 2″ layer of ice and another few inches of snow on top of that) and I’m using my 24k dial-up. Hopefully the electricity is not next to go…
Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Domain Name Maintenance and Customer Service Lessons
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Bill Gates Is Creating Road Hazards Across America
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Last night on the drive into town to my 8-year-old son’s basketball practice we were on a heavily trafficked city interstate around 5:15pm…rush hour and happy hour drivers were everywhere with bumber-to-bumper vehicles across 4 lanes. I was sitting in the passenger side, and I saw a large truck in front of us. As we pulled alongside I saw “Microsoft” boldly painted on the truck cargo area.
1st Woman Space Station Commander…An Iowa Farm Girl!
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I thought this was pretty cool; it’s been on the local news here quite a lot, but it is neat to see it making national news…
Data Will Always Be Less Safe In The Future…I Don’t Want To Get Gussied Up To Talk On The Phone
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007I have a blog problem…there are way too many things I want to blog about and not enough hours in the day to do it! Throughout each day I note news items from the TV, or website news articles, or research, or reports, or just observations while at businesses or in public, and I only have a chance to blog about a small fraction of them. Today I think I’ll just briefly mention five of the topics I’ve planned to blog about, along with a brief note about each, and then maybe I’ll be able to revisit them sometime in the near future and discuss them at greater length.
Finding a Five Leaf Clover!
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Something very cool…my son Noah found a five-leaf clover today while waiting to be picked up at school. We are going to laminate it, then I’ll take a photo and post it on my site.
Increase Business Productivity AND Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Monday, October 8th, 2007While participating in a discussion in the Security Catalyst community I posted a message about how much more productive time I have now that I work from my home office as opposed to commuting in to an office building each day. After I finished posting I started thinking about how much more productive most businesses could be if they would establish significant portions of their workforce to work from home.
A Quick Note on Running Shoes…
Friday, August 31st, 2007Okay, this post *IS* specific to running and not to my usual topics, but since I talked about running shoes a couple of days ago I thought it very coincindental to see a news clip about running shoes on CNN today!
A Quick Note on Running Shoes…
Friday, August 31st, 2007Okay, this post *IS* specific to running and not to my usual topics, but since I talked about running shoes a couple of days ago I thought it very coincindental to see a news clip about running shoes on CNN today!
Norman Borlaug: A Great Role Model for the Power of One
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I have heard many information assurance (IA) professionals, when they are feeling frustrated, angry, or whatever other negative feelings we all have at one time or another, say what they are doing is not making a difference, or say they feel they are looked down upon by others in their organization as a “necessary evil.” They often feel that one person cannot make a difference.
Improve Security to Make the Planet Greener
Monday, July 9th, 2007This weekend there was a lot of attention on the environmental crisis facing the planet. There was the Live Earth concert on 07/07/07. Tonight the news was filled with more talk of new laws and initiatives, such as banning bottled water in restaurants in some of the states.
