Chris Gerling

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.

Juggling 30 is well, 10 times as hard?..

It’s actually not as bad as it seems sometimes.  Things usually have a way of working through their cycles regardless of your input.  Obviously if you care about the results you want, there will be participation on your behalf though.

SecuraBit is getting larger, but the cool thing is that we have an amazing selection of people behind it, and that really helps because no single person has to think of everything, run everything.  It’s a group effort, which makes for less pressure on each individual.  We’ll be doing our bi-weekly shows as usual, but also some spontaneous shows whenever we get the itch, such as the show Rob and Anthony ran the other night to get some timely comments in on the whole DNS fiasco that’s gone public.  If you haven’t heard about it, and you’re in some way or another involved with IT, I would highly suggest doing some quick reading on the matter and either patching your stuff, or getting the word out to your staff to do it.

Hak5 is about to start hitting full force again.  I’m looking forward to participating in creating some more technolust for all who are interested to enjoy.  We have some pretty good ideas kicking around so far, one of which involves possibly stomping all over the warranty on my 2008 highlander, and boy do I ever love voiding warranties on things.

I’m torn between staying in the area, and moving a few hours away.  There are some pretty kickass jobs up towards DC that would be VERY rewarding professionally, yet I hate the idea of being so far from the people who make life fun, my friends.  I’ll know more in a few weeks as I edge closer to the time in which I must make an absolute decision.  Either way, I already drive at minimum an hour each way on most weekends, so 3 hours wouldn’t be that much more painful.