Personally, I’ve lost my voice [literally, not metaphorically] along with a plethora of business to attend to which has thus left my blog yet again under maintained. In all actuality, I think I have finally found my voice.  In the queue I will be shortly publishing a followup on the initial Bay Area Security Professionals / PCI Group meeting, as well as my research on Cloud Computing including articles on RightScale, Mosso, Amazon AWS, and GoGrid.

Lastly, I’ve got some portfolio additions that will appear in What I’ve Done section in the coming weeks.

In an attempt to create a community around web payment security professionals and PCI Compliance, I’ve decided to co-found the Bay Area Security Professionals / PCIUG [formal name might change].  The first gathering is Friday Jan 23, 2009 and will be less formal (meet-up style) to determine the future of the group.  It’s free, just register here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=phKV5pOXQ70lhTuYQz2bkSg and show up here:

Gordon Biersch
2 Harrison Street
San Francicso, CA
Jan. 23rd 2009 @ 7pm

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact myself @brianjeremy or @sfoak via Twitter.

I’ve got an article on Mosso, AWS, AWS Console, and RightScale I’ve been diligently working on, hence the radio silence on recent posts to my blog.  It will be finalized the week of Jan 12th, so please sit tight — maybe get some sun in the meantime.

While, doing some sunday cleaning (massive shredding of old documents) I found what I believe to be the funniest note I’ve ever received regarding client work.  This email was sent to me after the 2003 launch of samadams.com by JUXT Interactive.  Prior to shredding this, I want to make sure the memory is kept alive:

“To whom it may concern,

I am intending to dress up as Sam Adams (not the historical Samuel Adams but the character associated with your beer). I was wondering if you could provide a description or list of his attire as I would like to try to assemble the best costume possible. Thanks for entertaining this rather whimsical request.

(name redacted)
  

You can view the case study on samadams.com in my portfolio: http://www.brianjeremy.com/what-ive-done/samuel-adams/

Well, I guess its official the blog authority of the Interweb has determined that I am a geek — brianjeremy.com is now officially syndicated at http://geeks.alltop.com/.  It’s a shame my last post was about art — I’ll kick the technology posts back into high gear.  Welcome new readers.