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A man's home is his castle.
Upham Manor
Upham Manor has been home to my family for three generations, going back to my maternal grandfather. I am the current Lord of Upham and live there with my wife Janet and our son Benjamin and our twin sons Daniel and Jesse.
The grounds of the manor include the Mead Hall, a small piazza, the gardens, the courtyard, and a shrine. (Every estate needs a shrine.)
Not bad for a sixteenth of an acre of land, eh?
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth worth the reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
-Benjamin Franklin
The grounds of the manor include the Mead Hall, a small piazza, the gardens, the courtyard, and a shrine. (Every estate needs a shrine.)
Not bad for a sixteenth of an acre of land, eh?
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth worth the reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
-Benjamin Franklin
Yeoman Followers
About Me
- Gleno
- There is little better in life than hosting friends & family in the parlor or Mead Hall at Upham Manor. A fine meal, good wine, warm fire, and stimulating conversation amongst thoughtful people are one of the things in life I relish most.
5 comments:
Debunked by Snopes, sir:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp
You can rest easy. Put the musket down, homes. Obama is not going to steal your mp3s.
Just so you know, I do appreciate a man who is watching out for our liberties and doesn't take everything the government says or does at face value. We need to be always questioning and watching our asses. But seriously, it's good to check up on wild rumors before spreading them. Factcheck.org is another site in addition to Snopes where you can find information from various sources supporting or debunking such stories going around.
Thank you for your comment.
I'm someone who until now has never been caught by an Internet farce. I frequently debunk online claims that others have passed around. What led me to believe this story was not simply the credibility that Glenn Beck has, but also my own experiences as a network security adminstrator.
While working at IBM as a Sr. Network Security Specialist, and here in my current IT position at a state lab, it's very true that computers that connect from the outside into an internal system are considered an extension of our overall computer structure, and thus, are bound by the policies and protocols of the company or agency.
At IBM, any system connecting to our network was called a "Enterprise Gateway" and, even if we didn't own it outright, we regulated and contoled it as if it was our own.
What's false about Beck's report isn't that the government doesn't claim ownership of the computer system -- Snopes confirms that the government *does* indeed. What's false is that it's the Dealer, not the Consumer, who would be connecting as the Enterprise Gateway and, thus, subject to the government ownership.
In your old age, you are slipping. You also didn't know about how the legislature voted on gay marriage. You spend too much time on WOW. lol
Well, they sure did it quietly if they did! There was months of demands for the vote and an awful lot of press time devoted to the fact that they had ILLEGALLY tried to avoid voting on it.
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