Today I needed a little “pick-me-up” so I decided I’d go hunting for some of my favorite stand-up. Now, I’m old, which means, I’m kinda “old school” about this, so one of the clips I found was a classic Steven Wright quip: “I woke up this morning, and I was folding my bed back into […]
The curse of the cyber hype
One of the subtler challenges of security is actually knowing the scope of your job. And it’s made trickier by this “cyber” hype disease we’ve collectively caught as an industry over the last few years. I think it’s actually sort of a function of the crisis of definition over the roles in a security program […]
Whaddya mean, “You don’t know what you want??!!”
One of the biggest complaints I hear over and over again about talking to stakeholders as part of a requirements gathering exercise is: “They’re just lazy! They won’t just tell us what they want!” Which is… ridiculous. Now, if it’s around lunchtime, and your belly is grumbling and the smell wafting through the open window […]
That time Ken Thompson made me coffee
I got my Computer Science degree from what was then called the University of Missouri-Rolla a long time ago. Now it’s called the Missouri University of Science and Technology for reasons I don’t remember other than it’s more correct and obvious since Rolla is a tiny, tiny little town in the middle of the state […]
It’s ok, I know you don’t really care about architecture
I’m serious. And actually, you’re right not to care about it. Let’s face it, it’s not like we’re building La Sagrada Familia or something that grandiose. While the idea is that if we do our job right, lots of people will benefit. It’s neigh-on impossible for anyone to come along 100+ years later and wander […]
