rivercrow

Well, I admit my child site failed.
Big deal. Scrap it, and start over.
I need a place for personal marketing, so I think I will reuse the domain for that.

What forums have over blogs is the immediacy of conversation. There’s usually someone around on a well-populated board who’s willing to reply to whatever gets posted.
There comes a time when you want your own space. Either you make a long personal thread or you strike out on your own blog. (For me, the retreat to […]

Sherlock by Everett Kaser Software has been one of my favorite games for over eight years. Sherlock offers more computerized logic problems than you can shake a stick at.
Logic problems are those puzzles where you draw a grid and sort out who has red-hair and lives in the brown house with the pink car. Or […]

Information security has become more of a buzz-phrase lately. It seems I keep running into technicians who are eager to make the leap into what appears to be a more lucrative field, but who lack a firm grasp of what info sec is really about. At first glance, info sec seems to be simply the […]

I’ve been thinking about innovative cultures. I’ve been in a few–marketing departments, magazines, art school–so I do have a vague idea what an innovative culture looks and feels like. I also can recognize one that isn’t.
For starters, productivity is not the same as creativity. I can work all day at manufacturing things, but if […]

I’ve been thinking about ethics as part of evaluating my values system, particularly the ethical standards I have accepted as part of my professional life.
Most technical certifications do not have ethics statements attached to them. Security certifications do. The first one I signed was the ISC(2) Ethics Standard. The second is the CISA code of […]

ComputerWorld has an article about a coroner in Pennsylvania who has been charged with disclosing his log-on credentials to local reporters.
A Pennsylvania coroner has been charged with giving illegal access to a county 911 computer system to local newspaper reporters who then allegedly used his username and password to access a confidential law enforcement Web […]

If you’ve been paying attention to discussions about insider threats, this is old news. For the rest of you–you who aren’t concerned with this kind of thing–this is actually startling news.
A short excerpt from the article (located at Techworld):
Workers who sabotage corporate systems are almost always IT workers suffering from some form of mental derangement, […]