Loading my Bookshelf

I started at the University of Alabama, as Information Security Analyst, last Thursday. I was thinking about it that night and came to the realization that, though I have had cabinets that locked and offices without doors, this was the first time I have had both an office with a door that locks and locking desk drawers - AND I have shelf space for books.

For several years, my wife, as she progressed through her Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees, amassed more and more books into her reference library, utilizing every bookshelf in the house and acquiring new ones. Meanwhile, I have had only a couple of shelves of space on which I could keep books. The result was that I massed gigs of ebooks and PDFs into a digital library too vast for me to easily read. Now, I have the space and opportunity to bring my library out of the corners and into the light.

Here are the book titles I have selected to begin the loading of my office bookshelf:

• Just Enough Project Management
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Network Security Hacks
• Wikinomics
• UML for the IT Business Analyst
• Computer Evidence
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed
• The CISSP Prep Guide
• SANS GSEC Security Essentials Toolkit
• Ubuntu Hacks
• LPI Linux Certification in a nutshell
• sendmail
• sed & awk
• Hacking Linux Exposed
• Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition
• Introduction to SUSE Linux

Playing for Keeps

I just finished a wonderful audiobook in podcast format. I wanted to offer it up as a recommendation to all.

Playing for Keeps, by Mur Lafferty

From the site...

It tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Please go to the site and have a listen. I think you'll enjoy it!