Soon enough it will be Sales Kick Off season. Which is basically a three day party. At least I don't have to clean THAT up though.

Had a party today at home, lots of people showed up. Good fun being around all those people, but it's exhausting.

My mother-in-law knows me well. Image [www.instagram.com]

Happy/Merry Christmas. If not your thing happy Friday.

New Post: The One Thing You Can Steal [phoneboy.info]

Today we learn Apple doesn't really want you using PayPal as a payment method. Especially if you set up Family Sharing.

@matigo on that particular post I didn't markdown the last link. Probably should have

URL Change for PhoneBoy's Security Theater [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
I decided that I'm going to let the phoneboy.net URL expire when it comes up for renewal in a couple of months. URL Change for PhoneBoy's Security Theater was originally published by Dameon D.

A More Balanced View of Check Point ClusterXL Load Sharing [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
A blog post written by Greg Ferro, a.k.a. EtherealMind, had come to my attention on a review of ClusterXL in Check Point R77 based on the documentation. What is ClusterXL anyway? Why ? No response.

Fun with Check Point Dynamic IP Gateways in R77.20 with Gaia [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
Back when I worked for the Nokia TAC support Check Point Security Gateways, I actually ran a Nokia appliance as the headend for my network. In most cases, it also included a DNS server.