I’ve not been blogging very much recently, and why should be apparent after the end of this post.  I hope to possibly up my frequency in the near future, as more people may perhaps be a little more interested, but once again I’ll have to “feel the water” in the ongoing days/months ahead.  In any [...]

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Went to the opening night of the Green Day tour at the Key Arena last night and had a great time.  I have to say that it wasn’t quite as good as the last time we saw them (Orlando in 2005), but it was a great gig those guys really know how to rock a [...]

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Talking to a lot of people in security and consultancy in general, it’s pretty clear that a) we do a lot of travel as part of our job and b) pretty much have travel down in things that work for us, what we pack, etc.  In some ways I have to be thankful in that [...]

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So, for the 3rd time since the inception of this blog I’ve not posed anything up for a couple of months.  Once again, work/travel schedule has sapped my intentions, with me focusing more on the “work” stuff more that the “fun” stuff of which I include writing either here or doing books/columns/presentations/etc.  That’s not a [...]

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I desperately try to keep both politics and religion off this blog – it’s a personal thing that I don’t mind chatting about with people that ask, but as this is public, no-one really coming here really wants to read about my personal views on these subjects.  However, the following email landed in my non-spam [...]

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Strange how a photo jogs your memory to do something.  Tara took this pic as we headed back from Vancouver over the weekend and it reminded me that I said I would write up our green-card process once we were all complete.  It’s been a frustrating ride, and one I wanted to share with [...]

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It’s been brewing for some time, but at some point in July we’ll be moving to Seattle.
We’ve really enjoyed living in SoCal; much more that we’d originally anticipated.  There’s been lots of things to do between LA-proper and San Diego that we’ve had a blast.  So much that it’s difficult to pick any highlights, but [...]

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