Seth Godin with advice on why you should never follow the extroverts (he calls them “noisy”).  Just be sure to follow the shun the non-believers link.

• On Vacation
• Being a PR Wonk is Hard
• The Honor System
• Cult Crossovers Into Information Security
• Business Leadership Training

With all this hostile blog takeover talk today at Rational Security and Still Secure After All These Years, I’ve come to a conclusion:  I’m primed for a buy-out.

In classic Web 1.0 style, I now have value in the amount of eyeballs that I bring.  While relatively a new blog, I do have a sizeable amount of intellectual property built up in the form of numerous well-received articles and a couple of new scoops such as the Future of Metasploit and Bubba the Fisherman’s Primer on Security Metrics.
With the current trend of blog consolidation, I figure it’s just a matter of time before a worthwhile vendor sees my audience as their target audience and decides that I would make a perfect delivery platform for their product pitches.  I’ll even shill compliance solutions for a quick $5Million cash infusion from a well-heeled VC firm.  Like the old Dilbert cartoon says, you can’t spell “compliance” without “liance”.

• I Need a Security Blog Scorecard
• Blog Statistics and Search Strings
• Hack Disaster Relief
• Workin’ for the ‘Counters: an Analysis of my Love-Hate Relationship with the CPAs
• Got Training?

Hartford Courant:  The geeks are showing up in full force to defend Julie Amero

Credit to Vital Security who linked there first. (or rather, where I saw it first)

• Making Press Releases
• New Desktop Background
• No, Really, Mom…
• 8 Bit Peoples
• Blame it all on John Hughes….

In an email from a person who shall remain nameless:

“So, Mike, since you have started your own blog, I was thinking of you when I saw this article…

http://www.applegazette.com/on-the-web/create-your-own-apple-rumor

…just in case you run out of good ideas.”

• Targeted Spam
• Is Myspace Satan?
• Cult Crossovers Into Information Security
• An Informal Study on the Literacy Level of Security Blogs–We All Get Pwned by Amrit
• The “C-Word”

Redbreast sunfish are so cute.  A picture just doesn’t do justice to how colorful they really are–in particular, the fluorescent green markings on their face.  You have to go catch some to find out.

• Sunday Fish Picture
• Friday Flyfish Picture #2
• Almost Time to Fish the Potomac
• Friday Flyfish Post
• Friday Flyfish Post

Back when I lived in Colorado, I started flyfishing for pike.  I got bored throwing specs of dust at discerning trout that nosed up and ignored what I offered because it had 8 legs instead of 6.  I started playing with the lunatic fringes who were flyfishing for pike on Spinney and Elevenmile reservoirs.

If flyfishing for trout is like formula-1 racing, and flyfishing for smallmouth is like NASCAR, then flyfishing for pike is like funny-car drag racing.  The rods are heavy, the fly is a combination of bunny fur that soaks up water like a sponge and casts like heaving a 6-inch chunk of rainbow as bait.  This is definitely not your grandfathers small and dry flyfishing.

Usually you’re sight-fishing, wading, and the pike are huge and close.  When they nail the fly, you see a huge boil and your line shoots out of the guides.  The fish are only good for a couple of runs, though, and wear out fairly easily for their size.  That’s OK, though, they can really pull hard during those first runs.

• Sunday Fish Picture
• Friday Flyfish Post
• Almost Time to Fish the Potomac
• Friday Flyfishing Post
• Friday Flyfishing Post: A Tale of 2 Bass Flies