Jack ‘n Tracie

Spent this week in Oakland, CA. (Concord actually) at some training for Email Security. It was an interesting class, but since I was all by myself it made for a rather boring trip. There wasn’t much to see in Concord, but it was sunny and 65-70 most of the time.

I now know how to filter corporate Email and configure a compliance server to catch sensitive material in Email automatically. Oh, and I can setup an image scanning program that checks image attachments for pornographic images. This won’t catch something like the Demi Moore tastefully naked and pregnant Vanity Faire cover, but it will stop this picture of Johnny Vegas posing as Demi Moore naked and pregnant on the Vanity Faire cover. (The porn engine is also expert at catching naked mole rats and oddly enough, laminate flooring…. so Bob Villa beware.)

One interesting thing I saw was a pair of Canadian geese perched on the side of a building like doves, only bigger. I hadn’t thought about WHAT it was that geese did when they flew south for the winter, but now I know. They hang out on the sides of buildings in sunny California!

While I was gone Tracie came down with a horrible stuffy-nose coughing cold and was a miserable lil’ sickie the whole time! It was very sad. They even had snow for like two days! No accumulation however, but it was beautiful.