It’s been a good year and a half since I last kitted up.

But Summer Is Coming!

If you haven’t heard about DJ Danger Mouse, you’re daft. Turn off the intarwebs and retreat to the television room for reprogramming.

For the rest of us, Danger Mouse is at it again. Following his legal troubles with “The Gray Album” and his strong showing with the “Gnarls Barkley” project, he is releasing his newest album in Summer 2009. Titled “Dark Night of the Soul” it is a blank CDR with several pages of beautiful artwork in the cd case.

You read correctly, a BLANK CDR with instructions to “Do with it as you will.” Now he is certainly not suggesting you go download the music or anything [http://www.filedropper.com/darknightofthesoul2009], but do with it as you will.

It will certainly be interesting to see what the EMI response to THIS will be!

Personally, I’ll be buying a copy and downloading the content all while shouting:
REMEMBER 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Sources:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090515/1154504899.shtml http://www.prefixmag.com/news/the-danger-mousesparklehorse-collaboration-idark-n/28998/
http://www.filedropper.com/darknightofthesoul2009

Here is an excerpt from the email I received from Microsoft today.

Dear Microsoft U.S. Partner,

We hope you are as excited as we are about today’s milestone, as we make the Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) broadly available for download to managed Beta program participants, including MSDN and TechNet subscribers. If you are not among those who participated in one of the managed Beta programs, you only have to wait until Tuesday, May 5, when the RC will be available through the Customer Preview Program.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my two passions.

InfoSec and Firefighting

These two professions occupy probably 90% of my mental cycles througout the day. Increasingly, I find the lessons learned in one area can directly improve my effectiveness in other areas. For example, the way a major fire scene is organized and directed provides some very valuable lessons in the way organizations respond to security incidents and engagements.

How a project team works together is very similar to the way emergency services teams work together. The biggest distinction is while an error in IT is not a life or death issue (usually), it does have grave consequences.

All this is to say that over the coming weeks, I’ll be elaborating on these ideals and try to export some of the lessons I’ve learned and applied to my readers.

Here’s to the firefighters, one and all
Always at your beck and call
Vigilant and unafraid
Volunteer or city paid

Solentific men are these
Fighting fires or a dread disease
Challenging a flaming hell
At the ringing of the bell

Unknown heroes clad in blue
They give up their lives just for you
Pray for them as they go past
As every ride may be their last

By: Nick Kenny