Yearly Archives: 2007

Vladville WordPress: Teaching WordPress some Facebook Tricks

Programming, Vladville, Web 2.0
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When you do professional development for living the complexity of what you have created can get to you. On such days its best to get outside, away from computers.. but if you live in Florida and outside looks like a … Continue reading

Moments Of Timeless Pleasure

Friends, Vladville
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(I thought long and hard, which is rare, on whether I should post this on Vladville or not as its quite personal.) I spoke to many successful and quite impressive people in both my business (Vladfire) and elsewhere about the … Continue reading

Riff-Raff, and you don’t Stop.

Vladville, Web 2.0
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I said riff-raff and… Vladville: 18 blog comments. Andy’s Blog: 10 comments. Susan’s blog: 4 comments. Four other blog posts on the topic elsewhere. I don’t need to tell you how much email today’s post generated from friends, fellow entrepreneurs and … Continue reading

Who knew that Riff Raff was the red button?

Vladville
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One of the cool things about friends is that when you say something stupid enough they will never let you live it down. Such is the case with Andy Goodman, who is probably well on his way to print tshirts … Continue reading

Dell Buys SilverBack

IT Business
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SilverBack, also known as the company with the best damn swag at WWPC, got bought out by Dell. Conversely, this means Dell is buying itself into the managed services space. Interestingly, nobody seems to have raised a lot of interest … Continue reading

Are you going to SMB Nation?

Events, IT Business, SMB
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No. Of course not. If you’d like to know why, read below… Everyone seems to be asking if I’m going. After last years sales festival everyone seems to be trying to figure out if Dana and Arlin are really going … Continue reading

We’re now a 2 Blackjack house

Gadgets, Microsoft
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Nearly a month after I got the Samsung Blackjack for development purposes (and a day to a month that Katie took it from me) I’ve placed an order for another one. As much as it pains me to dump the … Continue reading

Orlando welcomes Microsoft MGX

Microsoft
on Orlando welcomes Microsoft MGX

It’s that time of the year, Microsoft MGX started today and Microsoft’s entire sales troop got to Orlando for a week long swim in the koolade: You can’t Photoshop that! Photo credit to Karl Palachuk So, welcome to Orlando folks. … Continue reading

Finally! MAPS Legitimacy

Microsoft
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Well over a decade in the making, MAPS finally has some legitimate barriers that establish who can obtain the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription, aka, thousands in free Microsoft software. How big is this? Very. Specifically for the frugal SMB sector … Continue reading

Interesting weekend ahead: Big Infrastructure

ExchangeDefender, IT Business, OwnWebNow, System Admin
on Interesting weekend ahead: Big Infrastructure

Every now and then poor planning and an incredible growth curve meet to make something special. We’re having a special maintenance cycle this weekend at OwnWebNow and rather than to test our luck I’ve extended the maintenance cycle by 5 hours to make sure … Continue reading