Moving Forward

A while back I read an article on managing geeks. I think it's fairly accurate and also carries over into the computer forensics arena. If you are in a position of managing geeks and are not one yourself, you might want to read this article.

Thanks to Harlan Carvey I read Lenny Zeltser's presentation on How To Respond To An Unexpected Security Event. That's another good read you shouldn't miss.

Ignoring the problem leads to discontent and inevitably: desertion. Content geeks on the other hand tend to be loyal.



That's about all I'm going to say about that...

Briefly: Moving of stuff

Since access to my QC website has now expired, I've moved some of the stuff that was linked to there from this blog to here. Future misc scripts will be dumped there as well.

Extremely Off Topic - Google: Feeling Lucky?

Just a bit of nonsense I discovered today:



Notice a theme?

OT: RSS Feeds and things

This is not going to be my usual banter, just something I came across (yeah, I know, I'm late) and thought was cool. So it's no big secret that I use Google's Reader to keep up with all of my RSS feeds. I had noticed that we are now able to search for shared items and hadn't really given it much thought. I had even shared a couple of articles earlier in the year, but didn't really know what happened to them, or forgot that I had done so...

Anyway, the other day people on twitter were talking about Google Dashboard and I decided to check it out. There really wasn't that much surprising until I looked under the "Reader" section and saw I had followers. Followers? For my Google reader? I wanted to know what they were following. So after some investigation I find my shared items feed with the two things I had shared previously. I've since decided to add things to the feeder, sometimes even with notes :-)

I know... Google's got the goods on me and I'm feeding the monster, black helicopters etc etc etc... but it's still a cool way to share things you read. I've since subscribed to a few feeds myself :-)

OT: Twitter

So I finally broke down and created a Twitter account recently. It started when I began watching a few people on Twitter. They often had very interesting Tweets related to my interests. After a while I realized that it would be easier to keep up with these Tweets by following these people with my own Twitter account.

Now, the reason I haven't had one up to this point was mostly because I was afraid of the privacy issues. While teaching undergraduate classes I have often been asked if I have a Facebook, Myspace, Twitter (or whatever) account so that students could ``befriend'' me. Till now I have abstained from these types of accounts mostly to avoid these types of student/teacher online friendships. Not that I dislike my students (I don't), but I just figured it might get uncomfortable at some point.

I am wondering if others have struggled with this issue. I know there are some people on Twitter who teach classes like me...

I have made my Tweets private for now to make sure that I know who is following me (but can you ever *really* know?). I know this is probably not the most favorable setup, but it makes me feel somewhat better that my inconsequential Tweets are not just openly exposed to everyone.

The people on Twitter are cool and information they give rocks. So far I am really enjoying it :-)

It's been a while...

Well, it's been a while since I've written anything. This is just a brief update for those who care... I've been busy and I switched locations for the semester. I'm not going to go over everything that's happened since my last post, but I'm teaching at John Jay College this semester instead of Queens College. It's still CUNY :-) and everything is still cool.

Oh, our paper was accepted :-) (this is not the final copy, but you get the gist) Edit: The schedule is up now.

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