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We have a new policy at UNI that requires all hard drives that are no longer in use by the university to be securely wiped of data or in some cases completely destroyed. How do you destroy a hard drive? Well, one way is to us a big degausser to zap the read/write heads and all the data on the platters, rendering the drive intact, but unusable. And how do you break a degausser? Have a student shove a drive into it with the mounting screws still attached!

As much as I like Google Chrome, this is the type of trick that keeps me using Firefox as my day to day browser.

This happened a while back, but I recently found the picture and it made me smile. The following is a bit of Pareidolia I noticed one morning at breakfast. A peanut butter toast bird. :)

We've got our first proper snowy day of the season in Cedar Falls today. Walking home I was enjoying the pleasant juxtaposition of a warm from walking body with a slightly snow numbed face. About half way home I caught a wiff of pipe smoke from a car waiting at a stop sign. This all combined to make me think about my Grandfather, Joseph Ebeling.

Here's another one of those things you never expect before you have children...

In a post last summer, I talked about a pleasant afternoon brewing beer with my buddy DeWayne. While we had a few mishaps that day, overall the process went pretty smoothly. I've now gone through the whole process of brewing, secondary fermentation, bottling and......waiting.