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So yesterday I finally finised my “fullsize” Lego model of the new Richmond VA Temple (not completed at the time of this writing). This is just a model and not actually built. It currently takes 5913 lego bricks and would stand at 4 feet 2 inches tall. Based on some preliminary calculations (on BrickOwl ) it would cost over $2700 USD to buy all the peices (if you could find them).
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Today I stopped working on my large Temple project (more to come on that later) to do a one-day mini temple project of the yet-to-be-completed Richmond VA Temple (<– as of this writing, that link as a picture of what it is supposed to look like when completed). I think it came out pretty well. I can think of a million ways it could be better…but I’m not a professional lego desiger by any stretch of the imagnigation.
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There is a big difference between “Being Secure” and “Feeling Secure”. Far too often even security professionals (financial, physical, computer, or any other) lean towards “feeling secure” rather than actually “being secure” because “being secure” is very very hard, if not impossible. Feeling Secure is a feeling in your gut that you’ve done all you can think of and covered every base (that you know about). You have used every little trick you know about, even if you don’t know how or why it works.
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Lately several people have been going over how they have their GO projects laid out, so I thought I’d join the group. I even went as far as created a powershell script to create the basic structure and initial files for a service/daemon based golang website. It ends up with the root folder where you store your shared objects, logging, and config, and then subfolders for different aspects of your project.
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