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When Base Camp Feels Like Home Brattleboro North KOA As we packed up the camper on the last day of our stay at the Brattleboro North KOA my mother-in-law mentioned that the campground had started to feel like home.  I agreed wholeheartedly.  This southern Vermont gem is possibly the best managed family campground that we have ever visited.  Ernie, Beverly, and their son Justin made us feel comfortable and welcome on a daily basis.  They are big-hearted people that are lucky enough to love what they are doing.  They also seemed to be having just as much fun as we were during kid-friendly activities such as tie-dyeing and ice cream socials.  We have had fun making shirts for the boys before but this time it felt like an outright party.  They also provided a full range of sizes so all of the adults were able to make shirts as well. The campground also has the all-important "buddy sites," which allowed us to face our camping buddies and create a common ar...

Know When to Hold Em Know When to Fold Em Brattleboro, Vermont It is true that one must plan things well when one is traveling with young ones. There is nothing that turns me into a Debbie Downer faster than hungry toddlers and no food options in sight. Their blood sugar can plummet faster than dotcom stocks at the turn of the century. When the boys start whining for food, my jaw starts to tighten and my sentences get shorter and shorter while my husband makes ill-advised comments about the sort of experiences that will turn our boys into men. In order to avoid this sort of scenario, I have become a big fan of the packed lunch. Early in our camping adventures, we learned that a well-stocked cooler saved us from awful experiences with overpriced snack bars and mild attacks of marital discord. We are now champs at pulling together lunch before we leave the campground in the morning. We follow a simple formula: PB&J or tuna/chicken salad, veggie, fruit, and chips or pretzels. Boom. Do...

Xmount When Changing the Evidence isnt so Bad "Do no harm" is the modern translation of the Hippocratic Oath which is applied to physicians. But it has application in data forensics as well. It takes shape in the edicts that require write-blocking be used during the acquisition of data sources and analysis to be done on copies rather than original data. (I’ll leave the very valid discussion about triage through direct examination of data sources aside for another time. We’re talking general principles here.) Can we ever change the evidence? The short answer is, "No." We should never change the original data, period. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t render a copy of the data readable. After all, it is better to read the data with the programs intended to use the data… that way we know we are rendering the information as it was intended to be read. And if there is a way to repair a file or file system in a manner that doesn’t change the substantive ...