I’m on yet another airplane, this time up to Seattle for another client meeting. I felt really bad for the non-English-speaker being berated by security at the airport for daring to bring 4.2 full ounces of liquid in his bag, as opposed to the 3 ounce limit.
I’m out in Colorado with the wife to catch up with friends (I used to live here) and test the snow for proper friction (snowboarding up at Copper, where I used to patrol).
Adam at Emergent Chaos has a quick post on the lawsuit against the Seattle Seahawks over physical searches at the stadium.
I travel a lot, and on occasion I’ll run Nmap or some other scanner from my hotel room to get an idea of what’s out there, and how dangerous these hotel networks really are. To be honest it’s not something I do all that much anymore since even scanning an open network is running the risk of being considered over the line.
Reported over at Internetnews.com.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending that the 2007 version of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) decertify direct record electronic (DRE) machines
Electronic voting seems to be popping up again thanks to our favorite digital ostrich, Diebold. Martin Mckeay’s also writing on this a bit, and it’s well worth reading.
I’m out on the road this week, right now spending two days at a strategic planning session with a large energy company. This is the kind of trip I actually enjoy- working with an end-user on strategic issues at the executive level where they really want to solve the problem.
A few months ago I picked up a Western Digital external hard drive at Costco since my MacBook’s internal drive was a bit stuffed with digital photos. The WD drive is a pretty nice USB drive and really portable.
I have a love-hate relationship with Vegas.
As someone who’s not the biggest fan of crowds (after way too many years of events security) this isn’t exactly the most relaxing environment. As someone who hates to lose… well, if you think you can win here you’re fooling yourself.
I’m heading out to Vegas tomorrow morning to speak at the Data Center conference.
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