Yearly Archives: 2007

VladCast Episode 8 – LA, WWPC, Humility

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VladCast 8, live from Los Angeles, California…. recorded quick, at about noon, cause I had to be in a data center soon. Yes, I’m that white.  Los Angeles Sloooooooooooow week WWPC: Whats there? Humility Play VladCast: [audio:http://www.vladville.com/media/Vladcast8.mp3] Add feed to iTunes  / … Continue reading

The worst part of owning a business

Misc
on The worst part of owning a business

They don’t teach you stuff like this in business school. The worst part of owning your own business is sitting in your office and realizing that you can’t quickly turn around and say “Fuck this, I quit.” One of those … Continue reading

Stopping WordPress Trackback SPAM

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Spamming is a hard job. Spamming blogs is even harder. I’ll save you the colorful description of what I think of the people that do this, and as of late a particular site (universityupdate.com) has been a big thorn in … Continue reading

It’s Road Trip Time

Events, OwnWebNow
on It’s Road Trip Time

It’s road trip time. I’ve wrapped all the projects, all the to-do’s, all the “can you get this done” and for once I am hitting the road without a single backlog, on-hold, pending or waiting situation on both the home and … Continue reading

Vladfire 25: Julian Sharp

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Finishing the big series from last years World Wide Partner Conference, almost a year to date is Julian Sharp of Vigence.com. Vigence won an award for Microsoft Partner of the Year at Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference in 2006 for … Continue reading

Social LA & Denver and Weird World Partner Conference

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As I mentioned earlier, I will be in Los Angeles this week and in Denver next week. I’m going to have enough downtime in both places and would like to meet some of our partners, so if you’re in the … Continue reading

The definition of sales success

IT Business
on The definition of sales success

You know you’re becoming a spectacular weasel when you try to make a joke and end up closing a sale in the process. True conversation with a large Australian firm: Vlad: <list of unlikely technical possibilities to get the job … Continue reading

VladCast Episode 7 – Betas, WWPC, iPhone

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VladCast 7, after a pretty bad flu, is finally on the air. I checked my stats, got almost 2,000 regular listeners (RSS) so I’m pretty happy with how its growing – talk about loving the voice! So what’s in store this week, 10 … Continue reading

How many blogs should I be reading?

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Interesting question from a fan of Vladville: How many blogs should I subscribe to and how often should I read them? Though the answer can vary slightly depending on who you are, how much spare time you have and how informed … Continue reading

Parsing Email & Standards

Shockey Monkey
on Parsing Email & Standards

I’m by no means a newbie when it comes to parsing email but for the past few days I’ve been looking at the application contents of email messages and really wishing there was a standard, or perhaps a standard most … Continue reading