Yes, I haven’t forgotten, I’m still sticking to the minimum of one post per week.
This week has been mostly work, although I did get my favors in this past Sunday so I can call in some karma later on when I need it. Helping friends move can get pretty interesting sometimes.
Obviously I’ve neglected to mention much about what happened outside of Shmoocon this past weekend, mainly because I wanted the Shmoocon posts to be about Shmoocon, and not much else.
So here we go:
DC Sleeps Alone Tonight
I had never really partied in DC before, and it makes VA Beach look like an elementary school playground. There are so many places to go, it’s a bit overwhelming. I should’ve paid more attention to the actual names of the places we went, but I know The Reef, Bourbon, and Adams Mills were pretty decent.
Friday night involved roughly 50 people from the podcaster meetup at the Chipotle near the Marriott Wardman. It was basically a train of geeks bar hopping, and while we didn’t cause any damage or get into any trouble (c’mon, geeks!) it was very entertaining.
Saturday night was even bigger, with the entire Adams Mill bar being taken over by Shmoocon people. Picture well over a hundred geeks talking about linux or hacking or whatever with a billion attractive women walking around, and those women finding themselves lacking attention. Well okay i’m fibbing a little, but hey this is semi-professional right? 
I might as well make the vow from here on out that barring any disasters, there will be at least one post per week here.
With that said, here are some of the things i’ve been up to in the last 6 days:
Movies: Finally got around to watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. I thought it was pretty interesting, and certainly portrays, at least from my perspective, a decently accurate story.
Music: Jack Johnson, Mark.Nine, starboard morning, Mike Masquith (the last three were free on amiestreet.com)
Games: MLB2k(Xbox360) is about the worst baseball game i’ve ever played. Of course I don’t traditionally play them, so perhaps it’s just me. I’m getting better at NCAA07(Xbox360), I do like the pacing a little better than Madden. Nothing much beyond those.
Podcasts: PaulDotCom, net@nite, CyberSpeak, and Hak5. All very very informative.
Career: The first CISSP study group that the local ISSA chapter is doing is so far very outstanding. I feel a lot better about my chances at passing the exam.
It looks like I will be attending Shmoocon 2007 with a coworker. It should be very interesting.
My acoustic guitar from music123.com arrived today, and i’m going to play around with it for a while.
Thanks for reading!
I’d like to point out some of the places I go at least once or twice a week in order to stay current in the network security field.
Official/Semi-Official channels:
The SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC): http://isc.sans.org
Secunia: http://secunia.com
SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com
US-CERT Current Activity page: http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html
Unofficial:
Slashdot: http://slashdot.org
Google News (Sci/Tech and Business): http://news.google.com
InfoSecNews Mailing List: http://www.infosecnews.org
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