Yearly Archives: 2009

Looking for Autotask victims

Posted: 5:13 pm
March 19, 2009
Beta
2 Comments

Next weekend we’ll be sponsoring the Autotask conference, if you are one of our partners and coming to the conference please drop me an email (vlad@vladville.com) with a jacket size (L or XL). As usual, we got some special swag … Continue reading →

I got put on the spot today…

Posted: 8:39 pm
March 18, 2009
IT Business
2 Comments

I had the following conversation with a dear friend who has been in this business as long as I have. For the life of me, I don’t know the answer nor do I have any idea where to begin. His … Continue reading →

Partner Up

Posted: 11:47 pm
March 17, 2009
ExchangeDefender, OwnWebNow, Shockey Monkey
1 Comment

If you work with me, you will be getting an email from me over the next 24-48 hours from now. It’s pretty important (to me, to you) so I hope you take a moment to go through it and see … Continue reading →

SMB Bailout

Posted: 9:23 pm
March 16, 2009
Gaypile
1 Comment

This has been on my mind somewhat over the past few days and I am not sure if I’m right or not but here it is: I talk to a lot of you and the most frequent question happens to … Continue reading →

There is no such thing as uptime…

Posted: 3:39 am
March 15, 2009
OwnWebNow
on There is no such thing as uptime…

Some things are just depressing. One of the most depressing conversations ever witnessed was between Homer Simpson and Bart Simpson. Bart is complaining about how, after series of embarrassing events, this is the worst day of his life. Homer responds: … Continue reading →

Microsoft BOPS fumbles again

Posted: 9:55 am
March 13, 2009
Microsoft
on Microsoft BOPS fumbles again

If Neo only took the blue pill when he was offered the idea of Microsoft hosting everyone would have been happy. Kevin McLaughlin wrote a fantastic story about yet another Microsoft BOPS flop this week: http://www.crn.com/software/215801490 In a nutshell, Microsoft … Continue reading →

Fellowship of The Binary Tree

Posted: 9:45 pm
March 11, 2009
Awesome
on Fellowship of The Binary Tree

http://digg.com/world_news/The_Silent_Minority_The_Non_Religious Someone provided the following comment at digg: So the next time some mormons/jehovah’s witnesses/christians come to your door preaching the bible, go ahead and pull out your biochemistry/computer science/math text books and preach that ***** loud and proud. Now … Continue reading →

Shuffled

Posted: 9:34 pm
March 11, 2009
Apple
2 Comments

Today Apple released the iPod  Shuffle upgrade. This has been by far my favorite Apple product and perhaps the most valuable one given price / feature breakdown. We’ve given away hundreds of them to partners, folks reading this blog, business … Continue reading →

What were you thinking?

Posted: 4:12 pm
March 10, 2009
Uncategorized
on What were you thinking?

Now I’ve come under some criticism from my pals over my (overly accurate) depiction of the Microsoft Partner Program last year. But nobody is immune. Check these winners out: Go Green Or we will feed you to the ugliest printer, … Continue reading →

Bye Bye DSBL – Check your mail servers!

Posted: 1:17 pm
March 10, 2009
Exchange, ExchangeDefender
2 Comments

At one point last year the DSBL blacklist, quite popular in it’s hayday, lost it’s entire database in a RAID system crash. The name servers kept on answering requests in the meantime. Yesterday, this activity stopped. This means that if … Continue reading →