| Cyber confusion. What is the airforce talking about?
If you are like me your eyes cross and you feel a ringing in your ears when you are exposed to military-speak. The acronyms are fun and server to separate insiders from outsiders, kind of a tribal thing. But is sure makes it hard to figure out what is really going on. Take Ellen Messmer's article today in Networkworld orld Magazine. She interviews Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Elder who is head of the Air Force "Cyber Command." Now let me warn you, the military uses the word "cyber" as a noun. When a military guy says "cyber is important" he means something like "networks are important". So, while "Cyber Command" should mean using networks to provide command capabilities, the air force has abused our language once again because what they seem to mean is "network management". In other words there is now one group within the air force responsible for network management and it is headed up by Lt.
Revisiting our favorite holiday cookie recipes
The same year's cookie issue featured a homemade version of the Berger Cookie from Suzanne Laubheimer of Parkville, which won for "Most Baltimore" cookie. When we baked it again recently, we agreed that this "Berger" mimicked the original very well, with a thick, crusty coating of icing covering a soft sugar cookie.
The following year brought us Cathy LaFleur's White-Chocolate-Dipped Gingersnaps, our pick for 2001's "Best Classic Cookie." The recipe actually had been sent in by LaFleur's neighbor in Bel Air, who loved the recipe so much she'd added it to her own holiday baking repertoire. LaFleur, disaster manager for the Red Cross in Maryland, told us she made about 1,000 cookies a year for friends and family. This spicy, pretty confection, which she got from her mother-in-law, was always one of them.
Poll: Little sympathy for mortgage woes
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 25 A U.S. poll indicates only a quarter of adults think the government should provide financial help to people who can't pay their mortgages.
The Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Personal Finance Poll found 42 percent are opposed to bailing out those who are at risk of foreclosure, including 22 percent who said they were strongly opposed.
A majority of those surveyed, however, agreed mortgage brokers should be better regulated.
The survey of 2,082 U.S. adults at least 18 years of age was conducted Dec. 10 and 12.
Half of those surveyed said mortgage lenders and brokers were most responsible for the trouble in the housing market and mortgage business, 21 percent said government regulators, 16 percent said home buyers and 11 percent said someone else, Harris Interactive said in a release.
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