Monthly Archives: April 2008

Karl’s Bookstore Burnout

Uncategorized
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I mean Right NOW, we’re having a sale at SMBBooks.com and GreatLittleBook.com. You have to start with this link: I KNOW VLAD If your purchase totals $25 or more, you will receive a $25 discount. Right now. All products. Limited … Continue reading

Dear Customer, STFU and GFO

Vladville
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Sitting around this morning, watching television, and I cannot believe the outpour of anger at the airports over flights that were delayed to repair electrical systems that posed a threat to the passengers. Just what do people expect an airline … Continue reading

Heading to the MVP Summit (for all the wrong reasons)

Microsoft
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I do not talk about it often, but I have been given a prestigious Microsoft MVP awards twice now and everyone on that team has been just spectacular to me over the years. I got a lot of opportunities with … Continue reading

Exchange 2007 SP1 Limits

E12, Exchange
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This one is for my buddy Seth who waited for months for the message limits to be lifted. For those of you interested, here is where they are changed in SP1: Organization Configuration > Hub Transport > Global Settings > … Continue reading

To her majesty and her prisoners,

Awesome, Gadgets, IT Business, IT Culture
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We’ve got your green right here. As some of you have figured out already, OWN has committed to scaling out our other product lines to EU and Australia. This commitment came out of the loyalty we have received from our … Continue reading

Disaffected Feedback

Microsoft
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Blogging helps open up the company and its employees thoughts on the world around them, but sometimes the insight can hurt too. Take a look at this from Steve Clayton: Peace. Why people spend so much time trying to find … Continue reading

Fast Table Repairs for myisam

Linux
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SQL table corruption can happen from time to time for a number of reasons. As we have scaled ExchangeDefender, I ran into a number of situations in which the data inserts were incomplete, or some maintenance tasks (large delete queries) … Continue reading

Poor Corporate Hiring Strategies in SMB

IT Business, IT Culture
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I knew there would come a day when I would have to categorically disagree with Karl on virtually every piece of advice he has offered. Take a look at this post on Hiring the Best Employee. The basic flaw in … Continue reading

Cultural expectations of toll free numbers

IT Business, Vladville
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One of the fun parts of running a global business is trying to adjust to the different cultural and business expectations of different countries. If you’ve ever worked with the people from the far east you know what I mean, … Continue reading

The Loudmouth Kick In The AdSense

Vladville
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In what is surely to be the most hotly disputed or buried story of 2008, recent study finds that “influencers” happen to have very little actual influence over their audience. Why, I’d never…  You mean to tell me that the … Continue reading