Just a quick update to say all is well, if a bit painful.
On Monday I had shoulder surgery to repair a moderate tear to my cartilage in the shoulder (the superior labrum, to be specific). Turns out the tear was a series of tears and I also managed to injure my rotator cuff. The 20 minute procedure took about an hour (still minor in the scheme of things) and my recovery will take a little longer than expected. The worst part is this week as I get past the initial pain, after that everything…
It’s Wednesday, and if my doctor’s predictions are correct I might be in front of the keyboard for an hour at a time today. Odds are I’m now in a recliner, watching bad TV, staring wistfully at my Guitar Hero Les Paul leaning against the entertainment center. You may think you’ve won Slash, but once my recovery is complete I’ll be more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Right now I’m probably lying in bed with some weird motorized ice pack strapped to my shoulder, and (hopefully) some pain meds running amok in my system.
One of the big issues facing companies these days is compliance – Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, PCI, and there will undoubtedly be more in the coming years. As a result, vendors are pushing all sorts of products that purport to help solve the compliance problem. However, compliance is not a technology problem – it’s a business problem which needs a business solution. By instituting sustainable business processes that effectively leverage people and technology, enterprises will become not just more…
For all of you who are curious, Rich is back home and “All is good.”
So somehow Rich has managed to hurt his shoulder. He swears that it happened while helping blind nuns cross the street in an ice storm, but I don’t believe it. As he mentioned on Friday, he’s having surgery this morning to have it fixed, so everyone think happy thoughts towards Phoenix. Since he’s going to be out of commission for a while, he’s asked me and a few others to jump in and post while he’s on the mend. If I’m lucky, he’ll even forget to change the password once he’s recovered and I’ll…
This is very amusing. Everything you need to know about negotiating with Microsoft for $44B.
I’m off for the weekend and in surgery on Monday (a minor shoulder thing). I have some guests on the site next week and some other surprises to keep the content running. Have a great weekend…
A strange thing happened Tuesday night. Martin and I logged into Skype for our regular podcast recording session and we noticed two different, but familiar, voices on the line babbling about being Still Secure After All These Years.
I have a moderately complex network at home, with multiple WiFi base stations (running at 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz), a hacked WRT54G gateway router for firewall/VPN, and a couple of AirPort Express units for music streaming.
Database encryption is like a home repair project- either it’s really easy and goes exactly as planned, or about five minutes in you realize you might not want to make any weekend plans for the next 2-3 years, and perhaps you should take a trip to the flower store before trying to explain why your family will be living with exposed wall studs and dangling wires for a while.