Queen Elizabeth is decidedly displeased, angry even, that she was not invited to join President Obama and France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, next week at commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, according to reports published in Britain’s mass-circulation tabloid newspapers on Wednesday. Pointedly, Buckingham Palace did not deny the reports. The queen, who is 83, is the only living head of state who served in uniform during World War II. As Elizabeth Windsor, service number 230873, she volunteered as a subaltern in the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service, training as a driver and a mechanic. Eventually, she drove military trucks in support roles in England. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/europe/28queen.html?ref=europe

NIST: Working Definition of Cloud Computing Released
"NIST announces that its working definition of cloud computing is available. Researchers worked in collaboration with industry and government to draft the definition that serves as a foundation for its research and future publication on the topic. Cloud computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Researchers are studying cloud architectures, economics, security and deployment strategies for the federal government."

atone (uh-TOHN, rhymes with phone) verb tr., intr.: to make amends for
from the contraction of the phrase "at one" meaning "to be in harmony"
A.Word.A.Day

Samuel Johnson has a well-deserved reputation for his magnum opus "A Dictionary of the English Language". He violated one of the dictums of lexicography--do not define a word using harder words than the one being defined--when he used decussate and two other uncommon words in defining the word network:
Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
And what is "reticulated"? Again, according to Johnson:
Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. A.Word.A.Day

Recipes that save money
Vegetable loaf
1/2 cup cooked green peas
1/2 cup cooked green beans
1/2 cup cooked carrots
1 1/2 cups milk
1 egg
1 cup soft bread crumbs
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp paprika
Cut beans into small pieces, then combine all vegetables. Add milk and slightly beaten egg, crumbs and seasoning. Turn into greased baking dish and bake in moderate oven (375F) until firm, about 30 minutes. Adapted from: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/vegetable-loaf-depression-style.html?campaign=daylife-article

Peanut butter cutlets
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
1 1/2 cups hot milk
1 tsp salt
6 half inch slices of bread
small amount of vegetable oil
Mix first three ingredients, dip in bread and fry like French toast. Adapted from: http://www.magtheweekly.com/55/parenting.php

Quotes about time
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges http://www.selfhelpdaily.com/SelfHelpQuotes/time.html