We've been having some interesting network issues that I've been tracking down and we've been trying to figure out how to set up our clients with our datacenter in Miami. I came across a book whose title looked interesting - Network Warrior by Gary A. Donahue. It is an O'Reilly ...
I'm a big fan of Windows System Restore and today reminded me of just how great a feature it is. Hats off to the folks who thought it up and implemented it.
I was installing a new VPN client on my main machine and, foolishly I will add, had two ...
Cloud Computing: Is It Safe?
By Alan Cohen from Law.com
Corporate Counsel
October 31, 2008
If there's one tried-and-true way to tackle a problem, it's to make it someone else's problem. It's the strategy that's given us plumbers, fluff-and-fold laundry and lawn services. Yet for a long time, corporate ...
We are pleased to share these trends via Baseline:
Organizations are increasingly looking to next-generation social networking tools to conduct sophisticated business intelligence and analytics. In many cases, they are mining data and looking for trends and patterns, such as which salesperson has the relationships to pull off a deal ...
One of our consulting clients has a huge problem with spam (mostly because their previous website displayed their email addresses for all to see in plain text which made life easy for email harvesters). The other problem is that some of their email addresses are very common and thus also ...
Any mail that has obviously been forwarded as a chain letter warning of just about anything, even if the warning is true is almost guaranteed to be some specie of SPAM. Sometimes messages like this refer to partially true threats, but the goal of the originator of the message ...
I just picked up “Love is the Killer App” at a café wherein Tim Sanders describes love as the ultimate competitive weapon in business. I have a friend who’s making a go for the fourth year working at home with her husband so they can be close to the kids. ...
There are basically two ways to start a business that I'll call the buy a chicken model and the RocketBoom model.
Rocketboom was the first videoblog to roll out a daily show and build a large audience successfully. As the first it commands a fairly permanent piece of popular consciousness ...
Xobni which is inbox spelled backwards is an absolutely terrific plug in for Microsoft Outlook. It indexes all of your e-mail and all of your contacts and relates all e-mails to individual contacts with other e-mails to those contacts as well as other people who are copied on to those ...
This may seem like a silly question to some, but I think it's often easy for us to forget what our job really is. I'm going to write this from the perspective of a Software Developer, but it applies equally well to all job functions.
As programmers, we have often ...
A good friend who is also a Camaldolese Monk, was visiting us this weekend. Like so many of us, our friend lives in a wonderful nexus of contradictions. Not only is he a monk, but he travels the world, singing and teaching about the monastic life.
Traveling and being ...
"I might as well settle in," Anna told me one fall day in 1993. We had both moved to New York along with about a quarter of our graduating class the year before. "I kept thinking I would start my life someday, and was living out of boxes, ...
These notes are in preparation for the Einstein Alley Panel June 23, 2008.
The wall street journal reports today that medieval jousting is back in vogue in Europe.
What's interesting to me about this is that the reporter Max Colchester specifically credits the internet with bringing jousting back to ...
One of the most common security issues I see in code from new web developers (and even some experienced ones) is not sanitizing user input. They trust user input to have always come from a non-adversarial user interacting with the site through a web browser. Given the HTTP(S) protocol, there is ...
When I was a younger (and more foolish programmer) I was fortunate enough to learn from some talented software developers. One of the many important lessons I learned was the benefits of watching your code excute. Now, to some, that may sound as exciting as watching the grass grow. But ...
Join me June 23, 2008 for a very interesting discussion on society, business and technology:
Topic: Thriving in the New Social Internet
Speakers: Dr. Charles Kreitzberg. Alberto Molina, Anne Kreitzberg
Location: Sante Fe Grille – Upstairs private dining room
Date: Monday June 23, 2008
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
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Service Outage for Hosted Microsoft Exchange Services Due to Thunderstorm at Data Center - July 6, 2008 (One Hour and 28 Minutes)
This morning, we experienced a service outage starting at 8:42 AM EDT. Service to most customers was restored by 9:55 AM, with all customers having full service by 10:10 ...
A reasonable question to ask really.
My main audience at this point is the development staff at Topaz Group. We are separated both by space and time. By space, because we are spread out and do not share offices or even the same area code. By time because I know ...
Last time I reviewed one of two books on security that I had recently read. This time I'll review the other book - Secure Coding: Princeiples & Practices by Mark G. Graff and Kenneth R. van Wyk (and published by O'Reilly which puts out excellent books in general).
This ...
Thriving in the New Social Internet
The new social world of the internet represents far more than finding a friend on Facebook or keeping a diary on line for anyone to see. New Web technology, also referred to as social media or Web 2.0, is unstoppably shifting the way ...
Security is something that is very important in all kinds of applications today. I have many more articles I want to write about security (particularly since we fixed a recent security hole). I'm going to start, however, with a review of one of two books I read recently on security. ...
The next generation of web start ups is going to be younger and more specialized. They are also going to be cheaper. It has become easier to get a website, for less than ten dollars you can register your domain name and hosting can be had for as little ...
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‘Rather than a mass customer base, advertising on these blogs gives lobbyists unbridled access to an extremely valuable audience: Britain’s political elite’
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I couldn't get the Numbers keys on my apple keyboard to work, nothing I could do seemed to help. The digits refused to work.
Every time I hit the "clear" button, which is the apple equivalent of Num Lock, I got a little squat sound like the fart of ...
Talking not Terrabytes ...
When we think of hosting we think of having guests at our house. We think of music to play and finger food.
Our business is taking the time to understand the equivalent of tea time in the digital age. Our business is communication, the kind ...
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Have you had one of those moments, just after you press the OK button on the "Are you sure you want to delete" dialog where you realize "No, I don't want to delete 'My Big Presentation 2008' I wanted to delete 'My Big Presentation 2007.ppt'?" This usually happens ...