Sean’s Obsessions

I wrote an article for SearchSecurity on the subject of certification related training in Universities, specifically the ISC(2)’s CISSP. I opted for the “against” viewpoint, mostly because I think the CISSP should be synonymous with experience, and partially because it made a for a great discussion.
The article: Opinion: ‘Student’ CISSPs put cert’s value in […]

I haven’t been posting much even though a lot of things have crossed my mind that would be interesting to write about. I’ve been pretty busy with my family and some other projects. Notably, I’m writing a few articles for IBM DeveloperWorks on Unix performance monitoring which I’ll link to here once they […]

I was reading through some of the notes from the talks at NANOG, the North America Network Operators Group. In particular, notes about the transition to IPv6 caught my eye.
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know enough about the protocol, but what always struck me as odd was that there’s no […]

I’m looking at making the move to Wordpress. So far I’ve got no problems with the import and the url redirection, but I make use of a plugin called “MTCollect” that lets me scour the post for urls and post them. I described it here
I’ve looked around and can’t seem to find the […]

Every so often I like to play with Google AdWords to see if I can make a couple of bucks (usually when I find a free coupon, that is). One thing that’s a pain is generating keyword lists from smaller lists.
I wrote a small CGI program, available at http://ertw.com/cgi-bin/kw.cgi , that takes lists […]

On one of my monitors at work I’ve been putting a label it whenever I come across a relevent saying. Here’s what I have so far:
Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity
Don’t screw the pooch
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
90% of the […]

Wipe someone else’s bottom
Jump for joy when someone pees
Let myself be a trampoline
Eat a two year old marshmallow cookie so that _someone_ wouldn’t get at it and spend the next hour running in circles screaming
Use the phrase “leaving without dignity”
Leave without dignity
Stay up all night cleaning up after a pukey toddler
Look around the room for […]

Why is it that I find the laws of thermodynamics somewhat comforting?

The first law states that energy can only change forms. There is a parallel to the working world in terms of efficiency. The energy required out of a project (q) is basically a constant, you can work extra hard at it (E), […]

I’ve just installed Skype and it seems to work well. My username is seanwalberg if you want to say hi.

One of the feeds I subscribe to made a mention of a system called Getting Things Done, which is based on a book by the same name. I did a bit of reading, and ended up borrowing the book from a coworker.
GTD, as it’s called on the ‘net, is a personal organization system. […]