I Feel the Earth Moving

It's that time again, time to make some New Year's resolutions.

This year, I am going to try to come up with a few I can actually keep. The things over which I have no control are out. Like reversing climate change. Or finding a cure for cancer. Or establishing peace on earth. Or finalizing my divorce. Yep, crazy resolutions are out of the question this year.

I don't want to aim too low, but my expectations are certainly less lofty than they used to be, say, when youth and a false sense of financial security clouded my judgment. As I scrolled through online pictures this morning of the frightening ways the earth can change in a split second -- glacial calving, volcanic collapse, earthquake islands -- I thought how ironic it is that such major alterations in the earth's landscape can occur so quickly while the more mundane transitions of everyday life seem to occur at, well, a glacial pace.

But enough about my divorce "proceedings" (a term I use very loosely) and back to my resolutions. As if some cyber god had read my mind, an ad suddenly appeared next to a picture of a meteor crater, an ad for an e-book that seemed to be written just for me: Vulnerability Management for Dummies. Sure, the blurb seemed to suggest the book was created to help protect online business networks from various kinds of attack, but it specifically noted that size and scope were irrelevant. As an avid (albeit obscure) blogger, a proud owner of a domain name for a fledgling business and, most importantly, a card carrying dummy, I am most definitely a candidate for a VM program.

So, therein lies my New Year's resolution for 2012. I will learn how to guard my Achilles heels and manage my vulnerabilities. I will become a fortress, impermeable, indestructible. Neither major changes in the earth's landscape nor petty shenanigans by attorneys and their clients (just a random example) will penetrate my thick skin or diminish my resolve. I am going to get with the VM program; I am woman, hear me roar.

Bring on the attacks. Heck, bring on the Mayan Apocalypse. You ain't seen nothin' yet -- just the tip of the iceberg.