Category Archives: Published

The Globe and Mail — Busi­ness Sec­tion
July 1^st, 1999 — 1450 words
Brad Grier — in Calgary

Brian Lynch looked like any other exec­ut­ive as he flew to his next busi­ness meet­ing, typ­ing notes on his laptop and fin­ish­ing off yet another memo.

But the papers in the clean-cut young man’s carry-on told a dif­fer­ent story. The bag con­tained a prin­tout of 10,000 valid credit card num­bers, taken after a suc­cess­ful secur­ity pen­et­ra­tion of a com­puter system.

Brian is a hacker. A White Hat hacker to be pre­cise. A pro­fes­sional com­puter secur­ity spe­cial­ist work­ing for ‘the forces of good’.… More

National Post Vaca­tion Art­icle
May 8^th, 2003
Brad Grier

Breath deeply. Savour. That won­der­ful scent on the breeze is the smell of Hol­i­day Sea­son “ the period of time between the May and Septem­ber long week­ends when col­leagues and co-workers juggle sched­ules, meet­ings and work­flow to ensure that come Thursday after­noon the work week is over and the reward of a long sum­mer week­end lies ahead.

Or does it? This sum­mer, more than ever before, many Cana­dians feel it’s no longer an option to com­pletely dis­con­nect from the work­place while on vaca­tion. Pro­jects con­tinue, cli­ents need updates, and issues arise.

This begs the ques­tion; do you really need to stay con­nec­ted to the office? Per­haps. For many people, keep­ing in touch with the work­place offers them a greater sense of com­fort, enabling them to relax and enjoy their vaca­tion more, rather than wor­ry­ing about pro­jects back at the office.
There are new tools that can make work­ing on vaca­tion less pain­ful. Work­ers have the option to effect­ively par­ti­cip­ate in crit­ical meet­ings or col­lab­or­at­ively revise that mar­ket­ing plan from the com­fort of an Adiron­dack chair on the deck, rather than miss the meet­ing, or have com­mute in to the office.

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