This is the life of all good. In March 2018 Sydney and I set out to live on a boat, sail, and work at our new awesome jobs. We are having a blast. Baseball games, awesome co-workers, an excellent boat, and…
EOTI Refit: Plumbing (new Dometic toilets and associated system)
If you are concerned about icky this post is not for you. When you buy a boat that is 18 years old it is going to have some issues. Everybody has their own personal tastes and that includes toilets. We…
Socrates and the Consensus Leader
“You’re always telling me what to do!” “You never tell me what to do!” “You’re to lazy to actually lead!” A subordinate in a stressful situation can make a lot of allegations but the root of the problem may…
OK… I won’t kill Selil.com off.
Jeepers. Y’all get upset fast about a free website. All of the original content of the domain will remain. The links if you have them should continue to work.
The end of Selil.com
Soon the website selil.com will no longer exist. The name is being retired after 21 years of being registered as a domain name, 30 years use as an email address and sysop handle, and nearly 45 years in since it…
What does GDPR mean to Selil as a website
First, I do not believe or agree that GDPR applies to a personal website when I have already had a privacy policy and terms of use policy in place for over a decade. All content creators agreed to have their…
New jobs and lifestyle changes
In November of 2017 my former agency leadership decided to go with a career intelligence community professional to lead a cyber program rather than the cyber guy (me!). This isn’t necessarily a bad choice but it put me in a…
Yacht Delivery
EOTI Refit: Hatch Covers
Lewmar Ocean Series Hatches will always “craze” where tiny fissures in the plastic make them slowly more and more opaque and harder to see through. The smoked version that we have is also a great way for tropical heat to…
2017 Iron Butt Rally
Prognostications for 2018
Trying to be more specific than my 2013 and 2014 attempts at guessing the future. Of course, my favorite “came true guesss” is back in 2006 when I wrote about Web 1.0 v. Web 3.0, but I also wrote all…
I had an excellent interview
Yes, I am on the market. You should really hire me. This though is about an excellent interview. It is strange to think about, but when you are talking to somebody at my level. Every interaction of the company is…
Incident response: Puzzle pieces and misadventure
The blinds were drawn, a glass of water sat sweating in the humidity, and as I looked around the room some very distraught men in suits looked back at me. The middle of a Midwest summer I had just climbed…
The hunt for a boat… To live on…
He, is a fat bald out of shape former academic with a penchant for classic plastic and specifically Taiwanese teak rejects. She, a high-speed low drag marathon runner who likes red wine on clean smooth decks with an Ikea interior.…
Cyber executive leadership: The gold rush for efficiency and dam risk
Working across organizational boundaries I hear the same refrain often enough to want to discuss it. From the intelligence analyst working an intrusion set I hear, “Why don’t they just patch their systems and we’d be fine.” On the other…