Tom Anthony Personal Blog

The internet is weird. O.K. – I mean I don’t get it sometimes. I have a blog powered by ‘blogger’ – as much as anything to keep up with the technology. Note the address is on my own domain at tomanthony.com/blog – My original web address for the blog and the way it is accessed by blogger is tomanthony.blogspot.com – and apparently it has been compromised – it looks like a malicious java script. How it got in there is what I don’t know – but it’s a statement in itself.

Just like the rest of the world there are good people and bad people in cyberspace. The bad people range from really high level engineers working for unfriendly foreign governments to network engineers who get a kick out of breaking something – like web site security. The latter does not realize that the mess they cause is financially damaging – because someone has to fix it – and time is lost in the process.

I reported the issue to the folks at blogger this morning – I’ll post the results. By the way – Thanks to Joe Cipriano for noticing!

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You know, this VLOG really needs no further comment other than to tell you the title of the film is “Jump”

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For the last few years my daughter and I have worked on a recurring school project making films depicting North Carolina history. It’s a part of the annual contest conducted by The Tar Heel Junior Historian Association – and the winner has their video displayed for one year at the north Carolina museum of history located in Raleigh.

It’s a bit of a brag, but this year the film we submitted as part of the media competition won first place – again. It’s the third time we submitted a film and the third time we won first place. Here is the film – called “Gone But Not Forgotten – The Bug House Laboratory”

Last year my daughter’s history club – the TEACH Historical Club, Eastern of Association of Home Schools, Washington, NC – the students won First place for a film called Reflections of War: Now and Then. I thought last’s film was actually better – but I need to find my copy of it so I can post it for you here.

Here is this year’s winning film.

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I went to one of those award banquets last night honoring technologists in the Hampton Roads Area. Actually it was nice – the keynote speaker was retired astronaut and smarty pants Roger K. Crouch who was absolutely hilarious.

But I think the nicest part of the evening was chatting with an old friend and co-worker Eric Worden.

We were talking about his project – an educational charity he co-founded with Michael Goldberg in the early 90′s called Magic-The State of the Arts (www.getmagic.net). I hope you enjoy this brief vid of Eric telling me what Magic is all about.

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I spent time at the polls for my friend and business associate Glenn Davis today. I mean literally at the polls – early morning from 6 to about 8:30 and again the afternoon from about 3:30 to almost 7 when the polls closed.

What a trip. I spent time arguing with a guy who ran up in a jogging suit and started putting political signs up in front of Glenn’s. He was not a happy camper – I was not polite.

It was a very interesting experience – perhaps I’ll do that again sometime. Just not sometime soon Here is my report.

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