Posting lull

I haven't been driven into an Atkins coma, but instead have been the fortunate benefactor of a "right place at the right time" moment. During my week replacing power supplies, configuring Windows 2000, and salvaging laptops, it came down that my temporary employer is facing an audit in January. That means they need some help fast, collecting policies, hardening servers, and possibly implementing better network monitoring.

Couldn't Frank do some of that? Why, sure, but not at my charitable hourly rate. Why, of course not -- we were going to contract that out at 5 times that rate. Needless to say, I'll be getting my hands on as many of those 5x hours as I can between now and the audit, and learning a lot about one of the great oxymorons to boot: Windows security.