As you might recall, my 2 year old likes to sing. In fact, she sings literally hours every day. When we’re on the way to school, she sings. When she’s taking a bath, she sings. And since we got her and her brother a kiddie karaoke cube for Christmas, she wants to sing pretty much […]
You know there’s always somebody playin’ with dynamite
I have to admit I was a bit stuck today when I was trying to decide what to write about. I mean, I have about 20 different emails in the queue about this month’s Security Sanity™ issue on governance, but all I could think of earlier was boring stuff… …or doom and gloom examples from […]
A bit o’ birth control for organizational decision making
If there’s one thing that seems to be multiplying like rabbits in the modern organization, it’s the number of people who think they’re critical to making a decision. C’mon…I know you’ve seen this too. You have a meeting, and 10 unexpected – and uninvited – people show up, or the CC line of an email […]
How architecture can save your life…or get you killed
I’d originally planned to write a different email today, but in doing some quick research to make sure I wasn’t being loopy, I found something I wanted to share with you. The excerpt below is one of many recollections of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF, I ran across: === In 1957 I was flying B-52’s […]
Zorked: what to do when you’re standing at that infernal fork in the road
Now, many of you probably won’t remember a game called Zork, or the whole slew of text-based Infocomm adventure game titles (of which I owned – legitimately – several). And the one that started them all was Zork. At some point, you would come to a fork in the road, and you’d have to make […]
