Category Archives: IT Culture

Is strong encryption a fundamental civil liberty

IT Culture, Rant
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For a moment let’s ignore political affiliations. Let’s ignore whatever you may feel towards Snowden’s brain dump that exposed just how much the US government violates your privacy. Let’s ignore that our government is thoroughly incapable of preventing terrorist attacks: … Continue reading

In Defense of Trump

IT Business, IT Culture
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A lot of people seem to like Trump, despite or in spite of the seemingly idiotic stuff he says. As I try to explain this to my friends abroad, it has more to do with the general disgust most sane … Continue reading

WTF is wrong with Vlad

IT Business, IT Culture
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Today I had a remarkably good day, the kind you only dream of as a business owner. I hung out with my kids and my wife in the morning, got in to work at about 9am, had a few meetings … Continue reading

NYE Resolutions

IT Culture
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Making resolutions is not as easy as finding friends that will keep you motivated and pointed in the right direction 365 days of the year. Everyone is entitled to wishful thinking – reaching your goal takes a little more. So … Continue reading

CompTIA Cloud Community: Trustmark Experiment

Events, IT Business, IT Culture
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This blog post (and few others) will cover the takeaways from the CompTIA Cloud Community in which I participate. I am not paid for it, the following is just my opinion, not approved or associated with CompTIA in any way … Continue reading

Career in IT? Part 1

Boss, IT Business, IT Culture
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No, not talking about Microsoft killing the TechNet subscription service – and ultimately signaling the end of life for IT Professionals who aren’t Developers – but the career in technology that involves managing servers, services, switches, hardware, software and so … Continue reading

Validating MSP Business Model

IT Business, IT Culture
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Every now and then I write a blog post that just digs me further into the ground. While I generally tend to ignore the negative nastygrams that come as a result of it (perception is perception, if you misread something … Continue reading

The Sum of all Bullshit

Boss, GTD, Humor, IT Culture
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Friends, readers, Chinese email harvesting bots and random DDoS attackers, welcome. I am about to introduce you to the one thing.. no.. the biggest thing that bothers me about business and those that fail at it. They go hand in … Continue reading

Review of CompTIA AMM and notes from the field

Cloud, Events, IT Business, IT Culture
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Over the past few days I had the pleasure of attending CompTIA’s annual member meeting in Chicago. While the event itself was fantastic and featured some great content, I do have some mixed feelings towards the industry in general that … Continue reading

Update on the NDA items

Beta, IT Culture
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Several people have followed up with me directly about the progress of the betas and other NDA software and solutions discussed at the few NDA webinars I held last quarter. Here is the official unofficial statement on those and just … Continue reading