I’ve been called strange things

In perhaps the most latitudinarian use of the word in recent memory, InfoWorld magazine has named me one of “This year’s heroes of IT.”

The award article, titled “CoreStreet targets massively scalable validation”, is a great description of our goals and work.  Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with SpoofStick or this blog.  The article points out the pioneering work done by Dr. Silvio Micali, but each member of the CoreStreet team has also made indivisible contributions to our accomplishments.  In particular our CTO, Dave Engberg, should be singled out for doing the work of ten men - ten men not entirely unaccustomed to work, either.

The other eleven winners are extremely impressive and, while thankful for the recognition, I’m trying to find a reason why I’m included in their company.  For example, Miguel de Icaza created Gnome; I once installed it.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to make a “Hero of IT” costume and maybe go wrestle a bear.