Archive for ‘Musings’

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Apr17

Want to Move up? be prepared

by Michael Farnum on April 17th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Posted In: Careers, Cool, Musings, Personal Development

My pastor writes a blog on our church website that I follow, and today’s message was very good.  Here’s an excerpt: Life is a long series of “moving-up-a-level” experiences. We move from kindergarten to first grade, or from middle school to high school, or from engineer to project manager, or from club member to club […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jan07

I am downtrodden and melancholy

by Michael Farnum on January 7th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Posted In: Misc., Musings, Sheesh

Since Alan posted his sadness at the Pittsburgh Steelers loss of coach Bill Cowher, I guess I can post my depressed state over the Cowboys loss to Seattle on Saturday. I am not going to write forever about why they lost or who is to blame (mostly because this is supposed to be an InfoSec […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Dec19

I’m getting cynical with age

by Michael Farnum on December 19th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Posted In: Business of Security, Musings, Security

I was reading through my many newsletters I receive daily, and I ran across a couple of articles about security vendors warning about spam, spyware, phishing, the mob and hackers teaming up, etc. As I was reading those headlines, I found myself quickly sneering and thinking these were nothing but more FUD from people trying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov18

Generalist vs. Expert

by Michael Farnum on November 18th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Posted In: Musings, Security

I have been thinking about the idea of generalists vs. experts in security (which probably translates into any field). I tend to look at the generalist as a jack-of-all-trades (joat), where the individual knows a wide range of subjects. Some people would say a mile wide and an inch thick, but I think generalists are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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