The Looped Square

Overcast [https://overcast.fm] came out today, and I think I have already found my new favorite podcast app. I've recently been going through a lot of different podcasts looking for inspiration for work, as well as ideas for the Southern Fried Security Podcast [http://southernfriedsecurity.com]. One

(I swear this is my last post on this for a while, but I had to get this thought out.) I was listening to Back to Work Episode 177 [http://5by5.tv/b2w/177] over the weekend, and Merlin Mann made a fantastic point around the 66 minute mark. >

At dinner with Jacob [https://twitter.com/biosshadow], Kyle [https://twitter.com/kylemaxwell], and my wife a while back, a discussion of drama in InfoSec came up. We started talking about our generally preferred medium of communication: Twitter. It's definitely both a blessing and a curse. I attribute

One week ago today, my Gunnar Optiks Phenom glasses [http://shop.gunnars.com/phenom/d/1044_c_100] arrived. Lately I've been suffering from headaches on days that I spend the whole day in front of a screen, and I had heard good things about the Gunnar glasses.

Back in February, I was on a trip to San Francisco. While I was there, I took a trip through the Apple Store down near Union Square and noticed that they were carrying Fitbits. I had heard a lot about these from my good friends Kati [http://spaghettimemoirs.com/] and

I've been using my iPad3 as my go-to device lately, with my Logitech Thin Keyboard [http://jsokoly.ghost.io/one-month-with-the-ipad-keyboard/]. It's a 16gb iPad3, and I wouldn't mind more space, but I'm holding out for when Apple puts Touch ID on the

It's no secret that I'm on Twitter a lot. Frankly, it's changed the way I communicate with people. It's how I keep up with friends, stay up to date on all of the latest news and drama in InfoSec, and all of

I was talking with my coworker, Stephen [https://twitter.com/averagesecguy] the other day about him teaching an internal "Intro to Python" class. He asked what I'd like to see in that class, and when I thought about it, the answer was simple: "How does

I was recently turned on to an iPad app called Editorial [http://omz-software.com/editorial/] by the guys over at MacStories [http://www.macstories.net/reviews/editorial-1-1/], and it's great. Not only is it a fantastic text and Markdown editor, but it's also an incredibly extensible

I've been playing a lot of Watch_Dogs [http://watchdogs.ubi.com/watchdogs/en-us/home/] since it came out last week, and I've been really enjoying it. It's the good parts of Assassins Creed meets Grand TheftAuto, with a whole hacker/cyber punk motif

Last night, Jacob (@biosshadow) [http://twitter.com/biosshadow] was over at my house, and we got talking about TV shows, as we are wont to do. Particularly, the rise of quite a few "hacker" type shows. Halt and Catch Fire on AMC, Silicon Valley on HBO, and one

I said I would do a follow up to the previous post, and here I am. Like I said, I've been setting up my new Mac, and I just wanted to write down some of the helpful apps and settings that I've found over the course

I started a new job at Tenable Security last week. While my official title is Information Security Analyst, my actual responsibilities will be much more research and writing oriented. Tenable was kind enough to give me an option between a Mac or a PC laptop, and since I've

So, about a month ago, I purchased the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard for my iPad 3. My next job is going to have me doing a lot of writing, and spending a lot of time doing that writing in meetings. I realized that I was going to need something that could

Let's face it. More and more and more of our communication happens online or in text of some sort. Text messages, emails, messaging, tweets, the whole nine yards. I'd estimate that probably >60% of my communication happens in some sort of text format, with some