Fall hasn’t just come to Fairbanks, Fall is almost over. Tonight we should get the first frost here in the hills outside town. It’s been a wet, rainy day, so the dog yard is pretty muddy. Snow level is supposed to be about 2,000 feet, still well above us.
Carol and I spent a lot of time this summer building two free-run pens on either side of our main dog yard. We’re gradually building up the number of dogs in each, with the goal that ultimately everyone will be loose, at least when we’re home. (Since I work at home, it is relatively few hours each week that we’re both gone.) I took the picture above from the newest pen, and the photo looks from it through the dog yard and beyond into the other free-run pen. You can just see Crowe’s head at the bottom, with Irish looking toward me. Misty is the white dog looking from the dog yard, along with several other indoor dogs.
There’s a cool new cartoon series that deals with security for end users, SecurityCartoon.com. It’s sometimes silly, but it gives good explanations of email, phishing, and general malware for non-tenchical people. It comes from Drs. Sukamol Srikwan & Markus Jakobsson of the computer science department of Indiana University. Based on their bios, they have some pretty solid security credentials.
Check it out, then share with family and friends!