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Geometry in school

The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (Prepare)

Change, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Awareness / By

It’s in a week that everything changes. School starts around here. Stores are filled with supplies in preparation. Kids are forced into stores to be reclothed. For many, though, the preparation starts much soon. The fall athletes. The summer schoolers. Yes, there are breaks, and the pacing’s different, but their work continues while others rest or work on other endeavors. The seasonal feel will change, too, while, in much of the country, temperatures will cool. […]

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Two young black cats who are ALMOST mirror images of each other

Cats, Books, Gardens

Cybersecurity Awareness / By

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Cicero🌺📚 Indeed. The best “things” of life, not to be confused with experiences and people. Or cats. 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 Cicero didn’t envision computers. Devices. Hacker cats. 🖥️🖥️💻💻🐱‍💻🐱‍💻 Insurers will tell you to protect your things and the future for the people you love (life insurance). Insurance is a great start. Your behaviors are better. Tend garden, mind, body, and Internet use. “Let

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Classify, Classify, Classify

Cybersecurity, Security / By

Category 5. (Not a hurricane)Part 2 (Information security) What kinda nonsense is this woman sputtering? Governmentese. ECCN stands for export control classification number; it’s used in export compliance. The base ECCN is always 5 characters. The format: A category in the first character (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9)A product group in the second character (A, B, C, D, or E)Numbers in the last 3 spots The designation EAR99 means

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Fog and trees

Fog

Communication, Cybersecurity / By

I can’t see my neighbors. This morning it’s fog. August weather perils of the midwest. Yes, yesterday’s cross country warrior braved the rain. Today, he navigated the fog. Maybe with little cat feet. To non-technical workers, the inner workings of the Internet and our entire technical industry seem like a big glass aquarium of swirling fog. So, imagine, to do our jobs today we need computers – a given. Also, the Internet. Today, I’m “Heather

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Thunderstorm

They Thought They Had Time

Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Awareness / By

They thought they had time. So they met at 6:30 a.m. today with plans to get the run in early before it got hot. Even though weather forecasted likely thunderstorms. (They didn’t have time.) Booming sky cacophany hit right at the time they were likely 1.5 miles from the starting point. So, of course, how high school cross country practice go/no go is like cybersecurity strategy. ⚡We think we can predict safety; however, there remain

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Books and globe

Conjunctive Adverbs

Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Awareness, Grammar / By

Connection. Commonality. Links. A conjunctive adverb ties related thoughts together as a link between two sentences by combining them into one. While retaining them as separate thoughts. The two most commonly written and spoken conjunctive adverbs are therefore and however. “I was aiming to achieve world domination; however, I instead found a good book to read.” “Cyber attacks are increasing in volume and effectiveness; therefore, organizations must intentionally combat cybercriminals.” Remember and implement the rules of semicolon

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cashews

Cashews Are For Rich People (And Other Fallacies)

Anecdote, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Awareness, Passwords / By

“Cashews are for rich people.” That’s a fallacy from my youth, along with thinking quicksand, snakebites, scorpions, and black widow spiders are actual daily perils. 🐍🕷️ 🦂 On the flip side – due to my father’s job, certain months of the year, we ate bucketsful of morel mushrooms many nights for dinner. So that seemed a given for adulthood.🍄 Our perspectives shift as we experience and learn more as to what’s real and where to

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Example of a Noggle Poem

Write a Noggle Poem

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Give this a try, as it’ll be pretty easy for you and probably amusing: Write a poem. The first line contains 4 words.The second line contains 3 words.The third line contains 2 words.The fourth line contains 1 word. The last word on each line must rhyme. So all 4 last words must rhyme. So, there are a total of 10 words, right, and there’s a simple structure to it. Try to make it thematic, but

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library bookshelves

ChatGPT versus Books. Books Win.

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It identified most of them – loosely, kindasorta. If you were its teacher, you’d fail it. Call in the principal and its parents. Story fabrication. I grabbed 10 somewhat random books this morning from my shelves and asked ChatGPT about them. It appears to scan the table of contents of non-fiction books in its dataset and bring about some vaguery befitting a book psychic pleased you walked in the shop who’s eager to absquatulate with

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