Author Archives: Vlad

Sign up for the Vladville Newsletter!!!

IT Business, IT Culture, SMB, Uncategorized, Vladville
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Lot’s of people want to keep track of what I am up to but do not have the time to read every word, every day. I also get plenty of items that people would like to bring attention to, but … Continue reading

Should free content creators be commercially compensated for giving away things for free?

Friends, Gaypile, Web 2.0
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Disclosure: I have been a Microsoft MVP in Microsoft Exchange category for two years, each year the reward consists of some swag and a $150 credit in the Microsoft store. How I got the award (first or second time) is … Continue reading

Howto: WordPress AJAX Newsletter Subscription with jQuery

Vladville, Web 2.0, WordPress
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Today I took the first steps towards publishing my newsletter and that of course means putting up a signup form. This is a dreadful, backwards process of creating a new template page, building a form, a processing script and then … Continue reading

My iPhone Buying Experience

Mobility
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Earlier today I went to the Apple store to try and make myself like the iPhone enough so I could ask my wife to get it for me for Xmas. I failed… the keyboard sucks, the phone sucks, the mail … Continue reading

Overwhelmed? Relax, you’re doing fine.

IT Culture, Vladville
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BBS Forums…FIDOnet, CCi…Usenet…..IRC……SlashDot…….AIM……..MSN………Yahoo Groups……….Digg…………LinkedIn………….Facebook………….. ……. Just a few of the ways I have wasted my time over the past 15 years, none of which I touch in a significant way anymore. When things are fresh and new you find people with … Continue reading

Westcoast Event in UK

Events
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Just a courtesy mention for an event that my dear friend Susanne Dansey is planning in the UK this week. Over 170 have signed up, and you can register here. I believe in Susanne enough that I can blindly endorse this, … Continue reading

SPAM Worse Than Ever But About To End?

ExchangeDefender
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Take a look at the following article discussing the current state of SPAM, discussed by the ones with perhaps most to gain: antispam vendors. As a highly biased vendor, I can tell you that the threat description by the marketers below … Continue reading

Don’t Be Unpopular

IT Culture
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Ok, this made me laugh to tears, hope it cheers you up:

The K.I.T. Challenge: Pursuing Leads

IT Business, SMB
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Remember your senior year of high school and all the K.I.T.’s in your yearbook? Keep in touch, a promise you probably live up to every 5-10 years around reunions. That may work for friends, but that does not work for … Continue reading

How do I get ExchangeDefender to deliver inbound mail to multiple IP addresses?

ExchangeDefender
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I was sitting around writing some documentation and felt compelled to share some general knowledge on how Internet mail is routed around. The basic problem / solution here is how do I get a multihomed Exchange environment on the cheap? Enjoy. … Continue reading