miscellany: e-Business done

Finished up e-Business; turns out no writing was required, as two versions of the course exist. I received the new course, but the old book; after completing two of the assignments, then asking about the discrepancies between course material and supplied text, was given the old course materials.

Also finished up the work for the forensics class.

Last stop, a project of some kind. I may possibly have worked out the bit where one part of a ciphertext must successfully be decrypted to yield part of the key needed to decrypt the following part; need to test a bit.

miscellany: headache-induced work break

Since it now feels like I've been stabbed in the eye, I'm not going to continue looking at this godforsaken e-Business textbook, much less begin the barrage of crummy writing assignments associated with it.

So far in the last thirty days: firewalls/VPNs, intro network defense, sec policies and awareness, disaster recovery, systems analysis, and database management. One more writing assignment to finish for forensics.

Then it's just e-Business and the project. April should be manageable.

Cramming all those undergrad classes this month was actually a lot easier than trying to complete half a semester's worth of C++ in two weeks; lots and lots of repetitive material in the preceding list of courses.

Reading some of the infosec texts is reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson's bit about attending the law enforcement conference on drugs; just substitute "script kiddie", "hacker", or "cracker" for "dope fiend", and that's the right tone. The definitions given may be weird, off-kilter, or just plain wrong, but if they're repeated enough in print, those will be the definitions used.