The Chinese House Exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum - I recommend it

I just saw 'Yin Yu Tang: The Chinese House' exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem MA.

This is a house from a small village in China, Huang Cun, that was disassembled piece by piece and reassembled here at the museum. You really feel like you are there in China while walking around because this is an entire house, not just the interior. What I found most interesting was the concept of almost no exterior windows (for security reasons apparently). All rooms open into the center. As the narrator said, the focus was on family and not so much what was going on outside of your home. When you visit the Chinese House you get a device called an Audio Guide that provides narration while you make your way through the many rooms of the home. Admission to the Museum and the Chinese House for children/youth is free. For adults, admission to the museum is $15 and $5 extra for the Chinese House exhibit. So even for a large family like mine this is very affordable. http://www.pem.org

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A surprise box arrived from Verizon/Google/Motorola today, I boughta DroidX on launch day

Here is the box.

In the box was a DroidX sticker, some coupons for DroidX accessories, and this black T-shirt. Here is the front of the shirt.

And the back of the shirt. The next generation of does.

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The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2010 - READ IT!

This is always an informative read.  And soon the sales/marketing teams at most every security vendor will start quoting all kinds of ugly things from the report to make the case for their “solution”.  Sales people even practice reciting stats from the report to make their case.  In many cases they have no idea what the hell they are quoting. 

Do yourself a favor and spend the time to digest this document so that you are better prepared and truly understand what all the pretty charts and graphs mean.  So don’t just look at the charts.  The written content is where the context is.

http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_2010-data-breach-report_en_xg.pdf

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Twitter over capacity errors. I'm feeling so disconnected!

Visa releases "U.S. PCI DSS Compliance Status" update. Most show percent. Level 3&4 merchant compliance "Moderate...

Visa releases "U.S. PCI DSS Compliance Status" update. Most show percent. Level 3&4 merchant compliance "Moderate." Riiight. (via @LucasErratus)

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