Fri, 30 Jan 2009

Shmoocon 2009 + New(?) Job

I've been overly quiet the past month or so, and for good reason. I've been herding cats while doing a little bit of work myself to prepare for Shmoocon 2009. I'll be doing security and helping out with Hack or Halo again this year. If you're going to be at the conference stop me and say 'hi.'

In other news I've been unemployed this week, and will be unemployed next week. A while ago I wrote "In a few weeks I'll be starting a new job working on and with FreeBSD. It will be a lot of fun and a huge learning experience for me. I'm certainly looking forward to it, and to sharing all that I can here." While it was a huge learning experience for me it turned out to have nothing at all to do with FreeBSD. I was supposed to be working on using the ports infrastructure (something I know a fair amount about) to help develop a product for Cisco. It turns out that I was a Linux Kernel programmer (something I know very little about). The whole situation was a result of some of the worst timing possible and a heavy dose of silly political situations. At the end of the day I was doing a job I neither wanted nor interviewed for. I consider myself extremely lucky to have such good people at my old job (MITRE) who wanted to hire me back. The end result is that I will be back at a job I like with good people (as opposed to good people at a job I did not like) while still being able to live where I want to live. Considering the tough economic conditions I consider myself extremely lucky to have everything work out the way it did.

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