While visiting the Cyberspace Symposium today I realized just how many companies out there are specializing in computer security and information assurance just in Colorado Springs. It’s unbelievable that there’s a place for these companies in a market that hasn’t been saturated. The Cyberspace Symposium is put together by The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). It’s comparable in ways to the Space Symposium (that will be in Colorado Springs, April 12th through the 15th) with the exception of size. The Cyber symposium is much smaller but definitely worth attending if you have the money and time. You can view their website at http://www.afceacyberspace.com/. The image used in this post header is property of http://www.afceacyberspace.com
Who knew so much could happen in seven months? Kati and I are engaged! I just launched KatiandTom.com. I proposed on November 6, 2009 at SQUEAK Soda Shop in Colorado Springs. Kati has been busy planning away for the wedding, in fact she has just about everything planned. We are still looking for a DJ, have any suggestions? Our wedding date is June 12, 2010!
It’s time for yet another update. Four months has been long enough to go without a new post. Where do I start however? Kati and I drove out to California for our Spring break. It was pretty great. A week of not having to worry about anything except the occasional “exit missing” we encountered in San Diego. Apparently my yellow Xterra isn’t as intimidating as I thought. My type A personality and lead foot (which I paid for on the way back in the wonderful state of Arizona by the way) don’t mix very well when the exit you want to take is right there and there are five lanes of traffic to cross. We spent most of the trip on Coronado Island. What a beautiful place. Other than that, school has been moving right along. Its amazing how fast time is flying, we are at the end of our finals week at UCCS and Monday is our last official day then its summer break.
Speaking of summer I will be back on orders with the Air Force until classes start up again. It looks as though I will be spending some time in D.C. over the next few months. I am looking forward to it. This will definitely be a learning experience. I feel so blessed to have such a great job and have the opportunities that arise from it.
That’s all I have time for, hopefully I won’t take four months to post again.
Anyone else need a quick lesson in time management? The last few months have been extremely busy. I’m two weeks into my classes at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), with 15 credit hours as a pre-engineering student.
On top of school, I just finished up my interview process with the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD). I applied to work there awhile back, as an intern working in the IT department and had the opportunity to take my first lifestyle polygraph. What an experience that was! Ok, really it wasn’t too bad. Apparently I passed though because they accepted me into their internship program.
On the personal side, things are going great. It looks as if I will be able to go to San Diego for Spring break this year with my amazing girlfriend. Kati has really brought a much-needed change to my life. She has broken the same old routine that I started to get back into after I got off active duty orders with the Air Force. It would seem things are finally starting to fall into place. I am grateful; God has blessed me in so many ways. With this quick update, I am off too hopefully put a dent in my Spanish homework. There will be more posts to come.
Tomorrow is November 4th! Be sure to do your part and vote! I could careless who you vote for but its your right to vote, its what has set our country apart for so long.
The race for the cure today was intense! A friend and I got up at the break of dawn to run a 5k at Garden of the Gods w/ literally hundreds of other people who either ran or walked for a cure to breast cancer. 75% of the profits made go to the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure foundation. It was fun to say the least, I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself a runner but I managed to drag myself around the course. Never in my life would I have thought that I would be paying to run races. I will admit I was surprised by the amount of people who attended… I didn’t realize how big this event is! I wish I would have brought my camera with me or my cell phone to post pics up on flickr but I didn’t think about it until I got to the event. Ah well… If you ever get a chance to walk or run for a charity organization I would urge you to do it! The profits go to a good cause while you are doing something to improve your mind and body.
GeoEye is preparing to launch their newest geospatial satellite. The satellite was originally scheduled to launch August 22nd but has been rescheduled to September fourth from Vandenberg AFB, CA. (Too bad I leave Vandenberg a couple of days before its launched but you can be sure that I will be watching the launch live from their website!) GeoEye-1 will have the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system and be able to collect images with a ground resolution of 0.41-meters or 16 inches in the panchromatic or black and white mode. GeoEye-1 is designed to be able to offer three-meter geolocation accuracy, which means that customers can map natural and man-made features to within three meters (about 9 feet) of their actual location on the surface of the Earth without ground control points. You can read more here.
Image Credit: GeoEye.
Happy belated birthday to NASA who turned 50 on July 29. NASA has launched a 50th anniversary website which reflects back on the last 50 years of incredible advancements not just in the fields of technology and engineering but also in innovation and discovery. I look forward to the next 50 years to witness bigger and better advancements not just within NASA but within all space exploration.
Photo Credit: NASA.gov
While reading Digg today, I ran across an interesting link to an article posted on the BBC website about how web users are skipping all the formalities so to speak and going right for the information they want. Users are going right for search engines and skipping home pages. You can find the article here.
