Yearly Archives: 2008

I love my haters in a major way….

Posted: 10:08 am
October 28, 2008
Vladville
on I love my haters in a major way….

Folks, I hear the grumbling, believe me. And no matter how closed of a forum or hug group you think you have out there, everything you say and do comes back to me. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t … Continue reading →

Kick them when they are down

Posted: 12:09 am
October 28, 2008
IT Business
on Kick them when they are down

Welcome to the wonderful world of business competition: Dear Vladimir, If you are concerned by published reports about DHL’s reduced capabilities, choose FedEx for all of your shipments, especially during the holidays. Big s**t poppin and lil s**t stoppin… Now … Continue reading →

The End

Posted: 9:17 pm
October 27, 2008
IT Business
on The End

…. of traditional computing as we know it: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1671 In case you are curious about why this is such a game changer consider a note from one of my younger developers (age 23) that sent me this note from PDC: … Continue reading →

The World Ahead

Posted: 12:20 pm
October 26, 2008
IT Business
on The World Ahead

Last week marked the launch of AWS upgrades across the board and the stable release of Amazon Web Services scalable cloud offerings powered by Linux and Windows. Yesterday I met with Hank to go over the schedule for PDC going … Continue reading →

Sell em when they are down

Posted: 8:43 am
October 24, 2008
IT Business
1 Comment

I think all the negative ads on TV are really turning me into a ruthless bastard. On my way to work this morning and I’m chatting with a fellow partner from Australia. His monkeys blew up clients migration and overwrote … Continue reading →

No Reboot Patching

Posted: 1:38 pm
October 23, 2008
Microsoft
5 Comments

Another out-of-band patch has been issued by Microsoft today and if you are not in the practice of watching out for these things you’ll find your Windows systems rebooting again tonight. Little hidden secret is that most Microsoft patches do … Continue reading →

Fighting a Commodity

Posted: 7:51 am
October 22, 2008
IT Business
3 Comments

I’ll admit that I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs or the Apple fanboy cult, but as I get busier I am really starting to appreciate the level of certainty both Jobs (and Gates) pack into a oneliner. The kind … Continue reading →

Cleaning up Incompetence

Posted: 1:27 pm
October 21, 2008
IT Business
2 Comments

For the past two weeks (and going for the next two or so) I am really in the overkill Ironman mode trying to clean things up both personally with respect to Own Web Now and professionally with respect to everything … Continue reading →

Advertising, Advertising, Advertising

Posted: 11:22 am
October 20, 2008
Apple, Microsoft
4 Comments

Note to self: Don’t mess with Apple. My god, this level of shaming and humiliation that is so in tune with every Microsoft step ($300 million ad campaign, renaming Vista R2 to Windows 7) is just unfair 🙂 This is … Continue reading →

Views

Posted: 2:42 am
October 20, 2008
IT Business
2 Comments

Regarding the previous post, someone asked whether this stuff really matters of if we should be more focused on the IT stuff which seems to be ignored as of late. Here is my thing: I am not here to tell … Continue reading →