Yearly Archives: 2008

Where does determination go?

Posted: 9:50 am
February 14, 2008
Vladville
on Where does determination go?

Last Friday I recorded a podcast on motivation and forcing yourself to get stuff done. Unless you’re a totally disaffected screwup, self-motivation is easy. The reality of the situation is that even though it takes only takes you to motivate … Continue reading →

When the bad days just don’t stop

Posted: 2:19 pm
February 13, 2008
Vladville
5 Comments

Ever feel like you’re at the odds with the world and your streak of bad luck just doesn’t seem like it’s ever going to end? Tough day? Feeling bad for yourself? Well, get over it. No matter how bad your … Continue reading →

Disturbance in the Microsoft Patching Force

Posted: 12:55 pm
February 13, 2008
IT Business, Microsoft, Security
2 Comments

Looks like there was more fun overnight than the Central Florida hurricanes, check out what OWN was up to: For the past 10 hours or so we have been handling an 820% surge in reboot requests for hung Microsoft servers … Continue reading →

Ludacris adventures of business social networking

Posted: 6:06 pm
February 12, 2008
Vladville
on Ludacris adventures of business social networking

Another day, another two dozen people added me as their Plaxo contacts. Grrr. The joys of being a community whore is that anyone that can Google your address adds you as a business contact. Let me level with you friends. … Continue reading →

Research in Freeze

Posted: 4:02 am
February 12, 2008
Mobility
on Research in Freeze

Blackberry global network takes a monumental dump again, leaving millions of heroin addicts blackberry users without their email for several hours. But you know who I feel for? Microsoft! Yeah, an underdog yet again. Blackberry follows up its 14 hour … Continue reading →

AuthAnvil 1.5 is out!

Posted: 9:34 pm
February 11, 2008
Deals, ExchangeDefender, IT Business
on AuthAnvil 1.5 is out!

Check out the new stuff in AuthAnvil 1.5: For starters, there are plenty of fixes and updates to the core system. There are over 50 usability bugs that have been fixed ranging for faster communication in the AuthAnvil DCOM Bridge … Continue reading →

How come nobody invited me to the party?

Posted: 1:59 pm
February 10, 2008
IT Culture
on How come nobody invited me to the party?

It’s Sunday, so here is your lesson… The man kind… Is a social one, my brothers and sisters…. Love thy neighbor, love thy fellow man. Do onto others as you would wish them do onto you…. We are all equal, … Continue reading →

SBSers and Exchange 2003 tar pitting

Posted: 4:43 pm
February 9, 2008
Exchange, ExchangeDefender
on SBSers and Exchange 2003 tar pitting

Few years ago tar-pitting was a big deal among SBSers who tried to protect their systems from spammers, worms and directory harvesting. Microsoft’s Alex Nikolayev, the big daddy of Microsoft’s SMTP stack developed the tar pitting technology for Microsoft’s SMTP … Continue reading →

More Yahoo Drama, who cares? The answer to why people hate Microsoft so much.

Posted: 11:20 am
February 9, 2008
Google, IT Business, IT Culture, Microsoft
3 Comments

This question came up during the geek lunch here in Orlando, far far away from the neverland of the Silicon Valley. Who cares about Yahoo and Google and Microsoft, I am tired of that drama said one of our local … Continue reading →

Vladcast Episode 11 – Determination

Posted: 9:42 am
February 8, 2008
Vladcast
9 Comments

Vladcast on determination. For all those of you that asked where I get the energy to do what I do and how I get this done. You might want to turn your speakers down a little though, this is the raw, uncensored Vlad. All you … Continue reading →