My new addiction when i’m at my desktop at home is StumbleUpon.  I’ve been using it for approximately a month now, and i’ve discovered so many interesting and useful websites through it, I don’t know how I used to surf the internet the way I did to be honest.

The other day I was greeted to a YTMND page, and usually I don’t like those very much, but this one in particular is different.  There’s nothing weird on it, just a picture, a very very humbling quote, and extremely good background music.  The theme centers on a picture of our Planet Earth taken from deep space, and the quote by Carl Sagan is really spot on regarding the human race.

Pale Blue Dot

In other news, my coworker Andy and I are on track to arrive in DC for Shmoocon 2007 Thursday evening.  We’ll be staying a little ways from the Marriott Wardman due to the lack of rooms there, although I might try to find out more about that tomorrow.

I’m looking forward to seeing some colleagues from SANS as well as podcasters from Pauldotcom.com and Hak5, and I believe Cyberspeak as well.  I’ll definitely have some pictures up here at some point, and we’re going to try to collect as much data as possible from the event, as we will be using it to brief/train other people at work when we get back, based on what we learn.  I’m very excited.