I am a “Certified IT Professional”, as of this morning. Just like you hear about on the radio advertisements! Yikes.

The Wired article concludes…

During incident handling, time is precious. I try to make myself take notes and communicate about the incident over logged channels like e-mail and IM - to the point that I think some team members have rules specifically for e-mail from me.

I’m just returning to work after Shmoocon 2008 – I took Monday off to recover and catch up on sleep.

I have nice things to say about the rest of the con.

I’ll be at the annual nerd convention all weekend. I’ve already made dinner plans for Friday. I don’t know what is up Saturday night for dinner, nor do I know if the Shmoo group has a Saturday night open bar planned like last year’s (which kicked ass). Sunday afternoon lunch is also already planned.

I just bought two general admission tickets to see Johnny Winter

Edward Tufte has posted a video and essay reviewing successes and failures of presentation and design in Apple’s iPhone. It is an especially easy to digest block of Tufte’s long running attention to information density.

The Bill Brasky fortunes never get old. But just in case, I threw together some Space Ghost Coast to Coast fortunes!