An Information Security Place

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When I first started blogging, I searched around the Web for advice on how to be a success.  One of the keys, so I was told, was to post often.  Another bit of advice I found was to NOT apologize if you don’t post for a while.  But I am going to ignore the above advice and apologize anyway.  So,  I humbly, sincerely, and profusely apologize for the extended amount of time between posts these last few days.

As to why I have not been posting, I have been on vacation.  I travelled to to see my parents and other family in the dark depths of back woods south Mississippi, where the fastest Internet connection is a 26.4 baud dialup to the local ISP (who has a strangle hold on the local area, by the way).  I tried to check mail, and it turned out to be a 20 minute ordeal just to get connected and have the screen fully load.  I did manage to post on Sunday, but that was quite painful as well.

Now, as to the new blog site, I think I finally have the theme where I want it.  I have learned a lot about style sheets, Wordpress tags, etc. (a lot more than I wanted to know, to be honest).  Also, I have done some back end work to get my site stat trackers and other stuff pointed to the new location.  I have also noticed that the new location is popping up now when I perform a vanity google, so things are coming along.

One thing I thought was funny and a little frustrating was that I finally obtained a good Google rank (Google bar shows 5 of 10) at my Blogger site (I don’t know when that actually happened).  So now I will have to build that back up.  Oh well.

So let me know what you think of the new site and the theme.  I have had people tell me that it is easier to read, and I have to agree.  I would like this one to have more of an edge, but I don’t want to go overboard.  Also, I want to make some kind of logo for the title.  I have a friend (David Nester of Spidynamics) who is going to be helping me with that and with working on the home site page (infosecplace.com), but if you have any suggestions on a logo, let me know.

Thanks for reading.

Vet

Posted by Michael Farnum on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006