Spring Peepers

When I walked out of the shop last night there were some spring peepers hiding in the grass right next to my truck, doing a techno fade-in dubstep version of their mating song. The audio recording capability of an iPhone is impressive, too!

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Qatar. 2011

The United Arab Emirates Computer Emergency Response Team (AECERT) invited me as a guest speaker at a conference in 2011. A quick search through my email database indicates that my talk was on: “Critical infrastructure protection: the relationship between terror, cybercrime, and espionage”

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Lost in Lost Wax

At Dragonfly Forge, when we made the habaki for our short-swords, Michael Bell made a little cardboard “mold” for the silver. It almost instantly turned to charcoal under the heat of the silver but it slowed it down just enough that the metal retained its shape.

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