Well, here I am back from vacation! It was an awesome time. Short and undeniably sweet. The only really sour part of the trip was the travel back home. Due to storms in Philly last Sunday we pretty much spent four hours in the plane just waiting. We did head back to the gate after [...]

We recently deployed Splunk at work. I’ve only pointed a few servers (the core ones) and the networking gear towards it and it’s already making a HUGE impact by simplifying the tasks that rely on log review. Just by adding the domain controllers and core switches, we immediately gain visibility to Authentication and DHCP matters. [...]

Today’s got that odd kinda feeling.
I flexed yesterday off and spent the day with Shirley and then my Doctors appointment in the afternoon so it feel like Monday today! A very odd sensation considering its Wednesday. I’ve got to go through the results of the External Penn Test with the internal stake holders [...]

It really doesn’t seem like forty years . I certainly don’t feel any different today after having crossed that almost middle age threshold… I suppose that can be attributed to the “frog in boiling water” analogy right ?
No really big changes going on. Just the every day normal goings on. Lots of work [...]

It’s been a looooong week. Not in a bad way but just long because of the hours involved. I was in the VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track Program class at MicroTek in King of Prussia. The course basically compresses two individual week long courses into one week comprised of ten hour lectures and labs. Then [...]

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Cross Site Scripting attempts on my gallery server. Usually being hosted on one of the ’seedier’ servers from over seas but I have also seen some on compromised boxes. Now the XSS attempts are coming from Linux based machines in the North American area but the payload is [...]

As you can see, I’ve migrated the blog to the new Wordpress 2.3 release. There’s still work to do and you should expect to see the theme bouncing around a bit until I land on one I am satisfied with. This one will do for now.
I ran into one particularly annoying snag on the migration. [...]

So it’s like this…
I did manage to get some stuff done. I mean, I started the day off with the best intentions but then that does not always gurantee that all will be well right?
I am moving the stuff from my old main console to a larger tower case. I just have to find a [...]