An Information Security Place

Well, you are probably wondering why I have a picture of my feet on my blog. Well, it is really not my feet that are the subject of this post. Look at my left big toe. Look different than my right big toe? Maybe a little more colorful? That is what Taekwondo will do for you. I got it during a race we were doing (the instructor likes to incorporate some fun stuff in the training at the end of class). I won, by the way. I think it is sprained. It doesn’t really bother me too much.

Yep, I started Taekwondo last night. I have always wanted to take martial art classes. But growing up in a small town didn’t offer many perks like martial arts classes, and I just never had the funds when I was single or didn’t have kids.

My oldest son (5 years old) has been going for about 6 months now, and I am usually the one to take him and sit in the parent’s section and watch. So I figured, why not? I joined last night. I went tonight as well. My son is helping me learn the step sparring and the self defense moves.

I am having a great time, and I hope it will help me lose some weight. Maybe Mike Rothman and I can have a Biggest Loser contest! The loser (the one who loses LESS weight – not the Biggest Loser,…uhhhh, I’m confused) buys the beer at RSA.

I guess it should be light beer. *YUCK*

** Taekwondo Toe Update: The bruise is now moving up my foot. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing.

Vet

I usually don’t post about these things just because everyone else does.  Plus, everyone who is not under a security / IT rock knows about it.  But this is a big deal in the world of convergence and deserves my attention is some form.

Like Alan said here, I think this just means some of the other guys are going to get sucked up soon.  Barracuda has always seemed like an acquisition target to me.  And now that they have a pretty big database themselves, you might want to keep an eye out for that soon (just my opinion – I have no insider information on this, and I do not own any anti-spam vendor’s stock).  And the others are going to go soon as well.

Mitchell, keep up that blog!

Vet 

I wrote about the OLPC initiative over at CW.  I think there may be some serious security concerns with this project.  I am doing some more research to see what I can find.

Check out the post and let me know what you think.  If you know some stuff that I don’t , please fill me in.

Vet