Yearly Archives: 2009

Game Over Part Deux (Serious Post)

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It’s the second quarter of the year, time to write one serious post without the Vladville act. I’ve decided to make this once-a-quarter event as to not distract the audience withe unfortunate reality (but tremendous opportunity) we find ourselves in. … Continue reading

Vlad does Tech Support

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Today is “Beat Vlad” day at Own Web Now, where everyone brings me their problems and I solve them. I haven’t really booked anything else so I’m at my desk just answering questions. I made a mistake of opening the … Continue reading

Getting SAS-IIey

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I’ve blogged repeatedly about some mistakes we’ve made during the growth surge that has not yet showed any sign of slowing down. Initially, we focused on just keeping things going and fixing things as they broke. Then we fixed things, … Continue reading

Long week…

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This is shaping up to be a long week @OWN. Here is something that brightened my day a little, I felt compelled to share it as most of my good stuff now ends up in the SPAM Show anyhow 😉 … Continue reading

You can have shame, or you can have money…

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But you can’t have both. Shameless Pimping Hall of Fame entry #295,392,923,592: Courtesy of Alex Roy from RoyAl Technology Management.

So, what now?

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It’s another almost all-nighter at Casa de Vlad, another first of the month and another record profit and revenue month. Ahead of all financial goals for 2009. Eh, if it were as easy as it sounds. First of the month … Continue reading

Vendors

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Perfect Vendor Relationships: Pay me. Feed me. STFU. Oh yeah, NSFW btw. Comments?

Is it August yet?

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Another beautiful day in Florida, it’s a great time to be alive. And it’s always great to be a Florida Gator. As the reigning champions we need to fill our quota of smack talk so today I would like to … Continue reading

I am not dead…

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All I can say is that it’s a blessing when your hobbies turn into business units that make such a huge impact in lives and businesses around the world. When things go from “fun stuff Vlad does in his spare … Continue reading

Changing the IT World

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Mark Crall handed me a book yesterday with the following line: “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”. I think at times in the IT industry we spend far too much time standing at the … Continue reading