Chris Gerling

~16 minutes left in January.

It’s amazing how fast the first month of a new year goes by.  Those older than me probably recognize this better, but it’s definitely becoming more noticible as I get older.  One minute you’re toasting some champagne with your friends and the next, well… you’re on the fast track to the next year.

In any event, this month was pretty interesting.  We started the new year off near Baltimore with friends, and then I went out to Vegas to cover CES with Hak5.  I got the plague while I was there, and unfortunately didn’t get to do any partying with all the awesome people I met out there.

After recovering from the plague and spending a couple of weekends just enjoying Richmond, I went back down to the HakHouse last night and recorded a segment on USB device tracking, which I owe a great deal of thanks to Harlan Carvey for both his book, and his help in my understanding of the windows registry.

February’s looking to be a very interesting month.  Shmoocon this coming Friday, and my birthday 6 days later.  Valentine’s Day, and then a pretty busy rest of the month.  Looking forward to seeing everyone at Shmoocon and hopefully seeing some new faces.

Peace

I love my crazy titles.

Now that I have been out of the Navy 3 months, I have learned precisely how bad my time management skills really are. It’s a funny thing really, but something I now know about and aim to fix, though not this week, here’s the lineup from now till the end of the month:

- Tonight at 9:30pm EST I will be doing a quick SecuraByte with Rob Fuller (aka mubix), Tom Eston (aka agent0×0 from Security Justice) and geekgrrl (whose name I have just learned is Melissa), and perhaps some others.

- Wednesday is a normal SecuraBit show, with another one likely coming next Wed as well to make up for the holidays.

- Thurs-Sun is CES, which is going to be a very crazy fun time.

- I’m taking my GCFA exam hopefully a week from Saturday if we can crash at our friends’ place in Norfolk.

- More Hak5 segments, though my next one likely won’t be filmed until one of the last 2 weekends of the month due to the schedule.

I’m definitely going to be looking at some time management books, and perhaps trying some of the GTD (Getting Things Done) type stuff. I waste a lot of my time and although I am firmly a hedonistic creature, there is a point where some goals and tracking them are good for more than work related things.

I want to thank everyone who reads this blog, as seldom as I do update.