Got an email over the weekend and found out that we got accepted to speak at Defcon 15. The title of the talk will be "Being in the know... Listening to and understanding modern radio systems."

To my surprise, when checking the Speakers Page our talk was listed very first. Nice exposure eh, now we just have to deliver...

Ashley reminded me today that 90 days ago (Feburary 20th), I started with Zions Bancorporations (NASDAQ: ZIONS). It is hard to believe it has been 90 days since I started there but so far I am really liking it. There is still a ton more for me to learn, but I am starting to grasp most of the stuff and getting my feet fully into the pool.

The other night we were checking out the house progress at Daybreak and came across this really odd cloud formation. Fortunately I had my lights with me so we stopped in the middle of the road and took some pictures. You can also see this shot and this shot. It was really cool...

I got back into the office today from a three day conference that was held offsite. It was a great chance to meet some of the people from the other banks and really get to see another side of the banking industry. So for most of today I have been working to get through the stuff I wasn't able to do last week.

I just read an article that was from one of our vendors used for check image storage. In it they were stating that their database now holds over 1 billion check images and uses 15 Petabytes of storage… Do you know how big a Petabyteis? It's frikin huge…

So most people are aware that a Gigabyte is equal to 1024 Megabytes. Therefore an 80 Gigabyte drive would be 81,920 Megabytes. According to Apple, you could store about 20,000 songs on an 80 Gigabyte drive. Well when you get 1024 Gigabyte together you get a Terabyte (1,048,576 Megabytes). If you were to ever group 1024 Terabytes together you would get 1 Petabyte (1,073,741,824 Megabyte). This would equate to approximately 262,144,000 (Million) songs according to Apple calculation. This data base 15 Petabytes which would equate to 3,932,160,000 (Billion) songs or 16,106,127,360 (Billion) Megabytes. And they are adding a million images a day to the database.

So Ashley and I have decided to give up the fast life and pick up this quaint fixer upper. The agent said it is very quiet and is in a great neighborhood.

Ok, not really... I took this shot while up working the East Canyon Road Race. One of the best parts about working these events is the areas we get to go. The shot was taken some where south of Croydon, Utah on N 6800 E. I did have a great birthday weekend. Ashley surprised me on Friday, and had my friends at LaserQuest. It was a lot of fun playing Laser Tag again with the gang but it made us realize that we were not kids anymore. They had a special celebration for me, including the public humiliation part seen HERE. Saturday we went to a great restaurant called Bambara located at the Hotel Monaco.

As for everything else, things are good. Ground has not been broken on our new place yet but we are hopeful that something will happen this month....