I’ll try not to go weeks without updating again :).  I’ve been pretty busy with my job hunt, the SecuraBit show, and with Christine lately.  This past weekend we headed up to Richmond to see Robert Schimmel perform at the Funny Bone there, and it was a pretty decent show.  Saturday night a bunch of us went out to a new place on the oceanfront, where Christine lost her purse/phone/everything (well, stolen would be my assumption) and I got the high score on the Mrs. Pac Man machine there, although I neglected to take a picture, most likely because my score was only about 35,000ish and nothing to boast about for me.

Season 4 of Hak5 is looming and I have some ideas written down in our little brainstorming area.  I’m going to add a couple of more once I’m done writing this, and hopefully I’ll be able to deliver better quality stuff this season.

Last night we watched the movie “Funny Games”, which I thought was good, but entirely too slow for my taste.  I think I’m too americanized where I need explosions and plot twists every 3 seconds, vice every hour.  I do recommend watching it, however.

I’m pretty happy with what we’ve managed to do with the SecuraBit show so far.  Other than some audio issues and getting too drunk, I think we’re on the right track.  For the next show I plan on changing the format slightly to have a better flow to things.  I think the correct mix of alcohol to show was Ep 2 though.

I do still manage to jump on Tabula Rasa here and there, although my subscription will be ending soon and I won’t be renewing.  Another MMO bites the dust for me, I can never actually keep playing the things for any length of time, and when I do it’s an hour a week if I am lucky.

The job search is on.  I think one of the more important things for me when I look at companies is what sort of management structure is in place for what they are doing, how well communication flows up and down, and whether there’s been any thought put into the actual environment people work in.  I wouldn’t mind getting into something with a lot of R&D-esque work, provided there was a proper setup for it, space/equipment/etc.

Christine will be moving down soon, which should make the summer a lot more fun, and probably less costly on gas as well. :) 

I think the comments system should be fixed now. 

So I’ve been playing my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for the last 3ish hours, and it’s a lot of fun.  I think if you didn’t like any of the 3 GTA 3 games you won’t like this, but it’s hard to imagine anyone who can’t like this sort of game.  The physics alone are worth hours of replay value.  I slammed into a concrete barrier while swerving into a turn evading the police and Niko flew out the RIGHT passenger window and about 150 feet through the air.. it was ridiculous.

See ya online.

I recently purchased a set of JBL On Tour Portable speakers for my Ipod on amazon, and I tell ya.. for 30 40 (oh well eh!) bucks it doesn’t get better. The sound coming out of them is freakin amazing for how small it is. Definitely have some party sound for the house now.

My tonsil recovery is pretty close to complete. I will probably still have a little soreness for a few weeks, but otherwise I feel great and can eat almost anything. I may even try a mixed drink or two this weekend. We’ll see how that goes. As unfortunate as my two trips to the hospital were for rare bleeding, I am happy I had the procedure done.

Along with the speakers, I ordered the book that goes with the game Mass Effect, which I recently finished for the Xbox 360. Outstanding game minus the technical issues. The book is called Mass Effect: Revelations and is written by Drew Karpyshyn, the lead writer for the game. I’ve heard a lot about this book and will be starting it soon. Expect a short review of it in the next few weeks.

I’ve been VERY busy, between stuff with Hak5, work, personal life, and playing some games here and there.

First and foremost, I will be getting rid of this blog as it is right now, and putting a new site design online, to better represent myself in a professional manner.

Along with things I do with the Hak5 crew, I am undertaking a new project based upon some work I did this past week. Essentially I want to build my own CentOS 5 kernel to include EFI support for Apple Xserves.

Beyond that, I’m out for now.

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!