Welcome to today's dispatch from RSA. Day 1 was as expected. Lots of news about virtualization. Quite a few Barney releases. And a good deal of being festive.

I had grand desires of doing a 23 strong laundry list, but I awoke to a dead hard drive on my MacBook. The bad news is that I'm relegated to this text input on my iPhone. So you'll get unformatted pieces from me when you get them, and you'll like it.

I'm planning to go to John Thompson's keynote later this AM, and I'll try to give some first impressions. Until then...