Clearly I'm behind on my BBC newsfeed reading, but I found this gem from September 6, 2006. The article is about a group that has recreated the Bletchley Park code breaking operation from World War II.

Knowing our code making and breaking history helps us understand the work we do today.

The Washington Post published an article about how the HP Board of Directors used an outside agency to obtain phone records of board members and journalists. This is a fine example of how social engineering is still one of the most effective and dangerous methods of breaking someone's security.

Today, I officially gave notice of my termination of employment with AT&T. My last day is September 22, 2006. I start as Senior Systems Administrator/Team Lead at IT Convergence on October 2, 2006.

I'm not so sure I like the cropping on the current masthead picture. At the time of this writing it is:

I think the ship is in the wrong place.

Some other options I toyed with for a bit are:

and something completely different:

Last Tuesday, The Washington Post published the story"The Electronic Eavesdropper on the Line" about what happens when companies record customer service calls "for quality assurance" as we've all heard a time or two. The article tells us that what we say to these companies recording systems could be processed by a 3rd party firm.

Be careful what you say. It could come back to you.

The Washington Post tells us of a scary new FBI Counterterrorism Database. Be afraid, very afraid.

This level of data aggregation will continuously get more frightening as we go forward into the future, so be careful how organizations of various types store, manage, and utilize your private information.

Recently, a new web browser got some press since it was supposed to be more secure than the rest. Unfortunately, this browser is nothing of the kind, according to

Web3.0log, which says, "it’s just [a] 264K addon to Microsoft Internet Explorer that [any] beginning programmer would easily make."

Not all new software packages are what they claim to be, so be careful when something new comes out, even when it gets lots of press.

I've worked for AT&T in it's various incarnations for some years now. Though I've applied for another job in AT&T, internal administrative issues might not allow me to move to that position. In one of those instances of strange timing, another firm approached me about an available position.

I've finally decided that a simple blog is the best way for me to produce functional and timely content online. The whole portal/CMS approach was simply failing. It was overkill as an infrastructure for what really is just a place I can post information or point to other pieces I find out on the 'net.