Beware Premier World Discovery in Redondo Beach, CA – they lie by omission

You need to trust a travel agency. Anyone can make a booking, but a travel agency brings experience and knowledge to ensure your trip is a good one. If you can’t trust their expertise, there’s no point to using them. Even worse, if you can’t trust their business practices, you should stay away! Premier World Discovery lied to me by omission; they did not disclose cancellation fees when I made a booking; that lie cost me and my wife almost $500.

Why the CISSP?

CISSP certification is desirable for information security professionals for three reasons. First, it is still a hiring discriminator despite its increasing commodity status in the IT certification lifecycle (Sorensen, 2011). Second, it is a “line in the sand” indicating that the holder has a certain minimum competence in a defined body of knowledge that has been demonstrated through testing and subsequent continuing education (Harris, 2010, pp. 3-7).

Negotiation

In negotiating a short-term transaction, perception is reality.

However, in a negotiation that is part of a long-term relationship, reality will eventually catch up with you; the resulting pain will be proportional to the difference between the perception and the reality at the time of negotiation.

self-deprecation

To constitute a genial and good-humoured company, it is essential that each, in their turn, should submit to be laughed at.

— Alexander Bain, English Composition and Rhetoric 77 (4th ed. 1877)

The story of St. Columba: A modern copyright battle in sixth century Ireland

The story of St. Columba: A modern copyright battle in sixth century Ireland: http://red.ht/khtJqs

Full paper by Ray Corrigan at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/docs2/corrigan.pdf

listening

Few people . . . have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

— S.I. Hayakawa, Symbol, Status, and Personality 32 (1963)

The Sons of Martha

The sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.

Confucius on Leadership

Confucius (500 BCE) said in the opening of his Analects:

  • Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?
  • Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
  • Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?

ERP vs EAI

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) are two ways to integrate business processes and data.

Not impressed with Bhasin's text.

Bhasin's Web Security Basics (2003) is not just dated but contains errors.
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