Boy- never get shoulder surgery if you can avoid it. Although I can type, the pain, lack of sleep, and other restrictions probably have me down to 50% productivity. No fun when you work for yourself. Trying to not use my right arm for any lifting, pulling, pushing, or reaching for the next 3 month swill be an interesting prospect.
Securosis is very pleased to announce that Debix is providing a year of free credit protection to three lucky readers.
Those of you who read this site and listen to the Network Security Podcast know that I’m a big fan of preventative credit protection instead of just passive monitoring. I’ve been using Debix for a few months now and am extremely pleased with the service. Normally I never pick one vendor over the other, but there are only two providers in this market, and LifeLock has a sordid…
I really don’t see the appeal of the whole drug thing. I’ve never been into recreational drugs other than alcohol, and even that I prefer in moderation. By “never been into” I mean never tried. Nope- didn’t hold it, didn’t inhale.
Even in my drug-addled state last week it was hard to miss the cold boot encryption attack released by Ed Felten and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. This is some seriously impressive work with major implications, but despite all the articles I’ve seen there has been little information on how to evaluate and mitigate your personal or organizational risk.
Just a quick update to say all is well, if a bit painful.
On Monday I had shoulder surgery to repair a moderate tear to my cartilage in the shoulder (the superior labrum, to be specific). Turns out the tear was a series of tears and I also managed to injure my rotator cuff. The 20 minute procedure took about an hour (still minor in the scheme of things) and my recovery will take a little longer than expected. The worst part is this week as I get past the initial pain, after that everything…
It’s Wednesday, and if my doctor’s predictions are correct I might be in front of the keyboard for an hour at a time today. Odds are I’m now in a recliner, watching bad TV, staring wistfully at my Guitar Hero Les Paul leaning against the entertainment center. You may think you’ve won Slash, but once my recovery is complete I’ll be more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Right now I’m probably lying in bed with some weird motorized ice pack strapped to my shoulder, and (hopefully) some pain meds running amok in my system.
One of the big issues facing companies these days is compliance – Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, PCI, and there will undoubtedly be more in the coming years. As a result, vendors are pushing all sorts of products that purport to help solve the compliance problem. However, compliance is not a technology problem – it’s a business problem which needs a business solution. By instituting sustainable business processes that effectively leverage people and technology, enterprises will become not just more…
For all of you who are curious, Rich is back home and “All is good.”
So somehow Rich has managed to hurt his shoulder. He swears that it happened while helping blind nuns cross the street in an ice storm, but I don’t believe it. As he mentioned on Friday, he’s having surgery this morning to have it fixed, so everyone think happy thoughts towards Phoenix. Since he’s going to be out of commission for a while, he’s asked me and a few others to jump in and post while he’s on the mend. If I’m lucky, he’ll even forget to change the password once he’s recovered and…