December 12, 2003
Added link to my latest article
for Information
Security Magazine, on the Automotive Network Exchange. Also updated
the resume, added a new photo of me (in Paris!) to the About page.
November 27 , 2003
Bonjour ... Thanksgiving back in the States, not that here! Updates:
after three months of French courses (200 hours to date) I'm taking a
month off from language courses. I've gone from zero French to conversational
ability. Still a long way to go, but knowing how to ask for what I want
at the market -- big thrill. I've got a bunch of recorded wanderings,
restaurants, markets, experiences, that I hope to write up in travelogue
format soon. Many rolls of film out at the developer's now too.
Current project: helping update the Paris edition of Fodor's -- an American guidebook series. I've been crawling the city verifying information, recording situational detail, scouring the parks for boules players. Fun stuff, and thankfully the Paris propensity to rain every morning is laying off. In my bag, I have an official letter of introduction in both French and English -- official paperwork goes a long way here. It's a fun gig. Horse tracks, in-line skating. And yoga in Paris? Bien sûr ...
October
15 , 2003
Major upgrades are in the wings, but I'm still coasting out of my move,
explorations, new photography, sampling local cuisine, cribbing madeleine
recipes from French chefs' cookbooks at the local Fnac's book section,
learning a new language.
In other words, enjoying the days before the sky turns gray--and doesn't burn off by midday, which I hear happens soon--and continuing to be less intimidated by Paris, a city that without seeming to, sprawls.
View from my window, above.
September 9, 2003
Slow on site updates as I just relocated to Paris, France, and
am still getting up and running. More articles and much more recent photography
still to post.
August 5, 2003
Just
back from two weeks spent traveling around the Baltic states -- Lithuania,
Latvia, and Estonia -- and Poland.
Did a bare-bones update of recent stories, mostly for Information Security Magazine. Hope to post travel photos soon.
Here's one initial one of the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn, capital of Estonia. More to follow, travelogue as well ...
June 30, 2003
Added link to my new Computerworld story on security and the world
of process control networks -- "Wanted:
Security Tag Team." Includes a sidebar, "How
to get started ..."
Summer has hit Boston, the a/c is going full blast. I've been attempting to document my life for the past few weeks. Everything was great -- interesting photos of friends, the area, not too many of the cat -- but then in a flurry of deadlines I forgot to do the daily writing/shooting. I guess I'll integrate that into the story.
June 4, 2003
Routine updates; trying to keep my weekly Security Strategies news
on the homepage up to date.
May 7 , 2003
May issue of Information Security Magazine is out online. I have
an article on the GAISP information security initiative, here.
April
28, 2003
I rounded out the profiles in my Pen & Camera
section for the Cambridge College annual report, 2001-2002. I'd uploaded
five of the profiles, but I added the three others as well, along with
photographs that I *finally* just scanned.
Also I updated the homepage with one of the new Cambridge College annual report photos.
April 24, 2003
Updated the homepage. Visually, I broke the technology reporting
box in two and slotted in headlines and subheds for my weekly security
newsletter. (Which means I'll have to keep this all updated pretty frequently.)
April
21, 2003
Overhauled the navigation bar (yellow bar at top) with links to more buckets
in my site. Dropped in a new photo above the fold on my homepage, of Devil's
Tower in Wyoming. Spooky.
My recent computer security reporting includes a piece on why organizations still get hammered by the foes they know; using biological models to detect attacks; and guarding mainframes in real time.
I finally updated my photo database with a lot of new material, including my experimenting with a super-wide-angle lens, photos from Halloween 2002 (a little late I know) including the reindeer-in-the-beer photo at left, and also shots of the beautiful Wellesley College campus in local Wellesley, Mass., after a late-winter blizzard. Also changed my photo on the About page. Granted, it's not completely in focus (maybe that's not a bad thing); it's nice to change those from time to time.
In addition, I updated photos from my cross-country jaunt in June 2001 -- which includes Devil's Tower -- to augment the black & white panorama photos with more color shots from the trip.
April 8, 2003
Just out: the April issue of Information
Security Magazine, which has my second-ever article for them. Titled
Copyright
Crackdown, it's on the crackdown on the illegal trading of copyrighted
files, which gels with recent news that the Recording Industry Association
of America sued four university students for making hundreds of thousands
of files available for free online.
April 2 , 2003
Updated my writing clips to include "Uncovering the Secrets
of Data Storage" section, which ran in the most recent issue of Fortune
magazine. Also added some recent work from my weekly Security
Strategies reporting for Enterprise Systems.
March 20, 2003
Time flies. I still haven't figured out what to do with the three
news stories per week I'm doing for the Security Strategies newsletter
(except to highlight the occasional one on my h0mepage). Added another
recent article to my list of clips: Turning
Up the Heat, my first for Information Security Magazine. A feature
I wrote on data storage will run March 31, 2003 in Fortune Magazine.
February 10, 2003
Updated homepage and clips pages with recent news reporting; I
just started doing information security reporting for the Enterprise
Systems Security Strategies newsletter.
January
24 , 2003
Small site changes ... updated resume ("CV" for my Brit
fan base). Still need to get the (I know it's a little late) Halloween
pictures up, since they contain what may be the first reindeer ever captured
on film drinking a beer. Poetic, no? You'll see.
In the interim, here are a couple of pictures from the 2nd-annual, December 6, 2002, Bazaar Bizarre at that bastion of 70s-era wood-panel-based architecture, the Somerville Dilboy VFW hall. Here's the Bizarre official Web site in case you missed this one-of-a-kind punk rock arts 'n crafts fair and want to catch it this coming December. Photo at left is none other than the ever-sonic Heath Row, purveyor of a very fine blog about all matters media. Check it out, kids.
January 21 , 2003
New Year here in Boston. Made some relatively minor changes to
the site to bring it in line with 2003. I'm not sure how to slot my most
recent work in the "business writing" or "technology writing"
buckets on my homepage. Still thinking that over. In short, I assisted
a redesign of SBLI's Web site. The new
version went live in December; I wrote or edited almost all text on
the site. I also recently did writing for Intel, both for internal and
external use, consisting mostly of technology pieces and case studies.
Starting in February, I'll be contributing computer security news to Enterprise Systems and its Security Strategies weekly newsletter.
In March, I'll have a feature on data storage appear in FORTUNE.
More photos -- New Year's and a belated Halloween gallery -- soon.