I am an uncle. My wonderful brother, Paul, and his beautiful wife, Diana, have given birth to their first born. I got to see him, via the magic of Skype, on his first day home. There are no words to express my joy and love for them. I am an uncle!
Paul was, at first glance, dour, foreboding, solitary and scary. To those that managed to get passed that carefully constructed façade, he was some completely different. I shall miss my friend’s remarkable insights, stark reality checks, thoughtfulness and generosity of spirit. His courage in taking leaps in to unknown was almost easily missed, cloaked in [...]
Like buses, scamming emails turn up in threes. Had a couple of concerned people asking about emails they’d received. These emails were similar to this somewhat edited version: ________________________________________ Dear Someone Important, We are a professional internet consultant organization in Asia, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company. On Date [...]
The magic that is the internet has allowed Damian, Senior Facilitator, to finally create a blog. He decided to throw away any form of social life and take the CISSP and the OSCP exams before the 30th of October. He is recording his decent in to madness here He is, as we like to say, [...]
Hiding from the rain this weekend, I was perusing through my local book shop new releases section, when I came accross a book called Daemon by Daniel Suarez. From the book’s cover artwork it was obviously technology based rather than supernatural, so I scooped it up and had a quick glance. The back cover aluded to bots getting up [...]
