Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
Appearances must be important to you if youre thinking about snagging one of these jewels, because itll cost you $1199, a far cry from the $300 price of Dells other 22" 1680x1050 LCDs, which display lower contrast and fewer colors. But then, buyers of this limited-edition monitor arent going to be bargain hunters, anyway.
(Via WoW: Ultra-Pretty Dell Crystal LCD Monitor Now Available )
Just as I finished up a couple of posts decrying the investments being made in lumping device after device on DMZ boundaries for the sake of telling party guests that one subscribes to the security equivalent of the ‘Jam of the Month Club,’ (AKA Defense-In-Depth) I found a fantastic post on the CERIAS blog where Prof. Eugene Spafford wrote a fantastic piece titled ‘Solving Some of the Wrong Problems.’
When I first learned C programming the idea that I had to manage my applications use of memory gave me an intense dislike of the language. To this day I refuse to write anything in C., Of course, I use other “C syntax” languages such as Perl and PHP which in the end are written in that language so I am just a guilty as any C programmer to contributing to the spread of software riddled with security faults.
Which is why I read the writings of security professionals such as Christofer Hoff. I have been reading the “Rational Security” blog only for a short time but in that time I have come to respect this writer thinking. I have often asked myself similar questions about information security.
I have thinking about titles a lot recently after reading Guy Kawasaki's LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover. I am not a student of marketing, I have never take any formal training but I feel that I do a lot of "selling" for my IT projects especially now in times of severy limiting IT budgets. After reading Guy's posting I decided to make over my LinkedIn profile and I started thinking about what sort of title to put in my profile. I decided that the one my employer gave me failed to convey the value of experiences, expertise and aspirations.
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So here's my slash title: Information Security Professional/Web Developer/Blogger. Does it fit?
