In celebration of the day, or…the night

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Ah, it is now past midnight and the 15th of the month has arrived.

 

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born in Paris, France on May 6, 1868.  You may know of one of his works, Le Fantome de l’Opera.  He wrote it in 1910.

The IRS strikes a friend

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Hadn’t seen him since a rather quick departure.  One day he was there in that house and later in the week he was gone and there was a For Sale sign in the front yard.  For sale by a bank, not a realtor.

Shots Fired in Anger

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by Lt. Col. John George.

 

Despite being stationed in Hawaii for several years and managing to spend some temporary duty time on a fair number of Pacific islands prior to and during that tour, most of my reading of World War II has involved the European Theater of Operations.

Dear Epsilon: Your system security sucks. 4/5 update

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In the last 2 days I’ve received messages from companies stating such.

 On March 30th, we were informed by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails to our customers, that files containing the email addresses of some ___________ customers were accessed without authorization.

Berlin Philharmonic — a class act

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I pulled up the last few performances of the Berlin Philharmonic online (Sony Bravia TV) to catch up on when I’ve missed lately and selected the performance of March 18th.

When the conductor for the evening came on stage, he was accompanied by the philharmonic’s general manager, microphone in hand.