Month: June 2017

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Accidental Bucket list

The words Summit and Peak will never be the same again for me.

Yesterday, I inadvertently ended up trekking 612 metres up to Alpl 14, Krieglach, Austria.  I’m a born Londoner so pretty much used to staying at no higher than 35 metres about sea level.

It was a combination of crowd trekking and sheer mental concentration to push my body to do what it didn’t want to do.  Reaching the Summit was absolutely wonderful, my heart filled up with massive waves of happiness and my aching muscles were quickly forgotten.

The mountains in Horizon Zero Dawn are brilliant but the real-life view and air from the top of an actual mountain is simply to die for.

40 minutes of hiking up blindly ended up being a really important life lesson to self.  I now know why people train for months and end up being addicted to trekking and conquering mountains.   A work colleague reached the Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro which is over 5000 metres up, now the magnitude of their achievement has suddenly dawned on me.

600 metres about Sea level

Today, I’m reflecting on my shock achievement and trying to soothe my muscles.

I WILL do it again.

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10 years of FarCry

I can barely muster up an hour of daily quality gameplay lately.  Game time suffers directly when the joys of the “Real world” kick-in and it’s hard to justify to non-gamers that you actually need time to play.  I’m usually disgusted by gamers with poor commitment and find myself exactly in that position.

As this point, I cannot claim to be a gamer but a mere sporadic spectator.

My library is littered with unfinished stories like half-eaten apples.  Of course, this is a common trend during Summer months as opposed to locking myself up in a Man Cave during the winter.

E3 gave us some nice treats to look forward to and, for me, FarCry 5, Assassin’s Creed Origins and God of War are simply must haves for 2018.  Still waiting on news on Last of Us 2 though.  In the meantime, I’m aiming to Platinum Horizon Zero Dawn but the end of August.

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Brutal CIA problems

Trying to get the right balance of Data Confidently, Integrity and Availability is really tough and ever changing.

Any taxi app will need your GPS data to locate you but does that app need to know your ever move ALL the time?

That taxi app now knows when you wake up, go to bed and how often you go to the bottom of your garden. You give this data away for free.  Apps like Uber give the end-user an all or nothing solution knowing very well that users cannot be bother to turn off location services or throw on a VPN when they don’t need a taxi.

Data CIA status is like catching butterflies, it can be done but it’s bloody difficult and requires resilience, tactics and skill.

Your taxi watches you globally
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We told you

It’s not so long ago that the IT sector told the world to get connected or cease to exist.

Now we are telling the world that there is no option but to use the Gigaflops of computing power available in Cloud computing.  Everything is now connected to everything and we are finally globally vulnerable with multiple conflicting privacy, data availability and security issues.

Now what?

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Gettin Jiggy Wit it

Even with all my planning and tactical moves, the onslaught of recent personal activities is causing some anxiety.

Next week, the InfoSec circus hit Olympia, London and I’ll join the thousands of Pros and wannabees mingling with vendors and experts trying to find the next big thing.  Of course, it’s wonderful for career points and gives me the heads up for the rest of the year in terms of staying ahead of the curve.

My goal is simply to maintain balance and avoid time stealers.