Author Archives: Vlad

Always Be

Posted: 9:58 am
September 26, 2007
Vladville
3 Comments

Pimping. Over the next two days I’ll be offering you my take and my review of the two books being published by good friends of mine, Erick Simpson and Karl Palachuk. Both have a history of comitting thoughts of great … Continue reading →

Could this knock iTunes dominance?

Posted: 7:02 am
September 26, 2007
IT Culture
2 Comments

Been quite busy lately with all things OWN, SM, TW… but even I took a moment to blow $0.89 on a shiny new DRM-free mp3 from Amazon’s MP3 service. It’s about as simple and effortless as it gets, works, and … Continue reading →

Rackmount Ergonomics (NSFW)

Posted: 2:17 pm
September 24, 2007
Vladville
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I’m back in the world of living for a few hours before I go back to sleep to catch up on a few things but I wanted to share a few words of wisdom with you. They actually come from … Continue reading →

So how was your weekend?

Posted: 8:20 am
September 24, 2007
OwnWebNow
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Last night / this morning I saw a shade of red on my eyes that was unbecoming of even a white rat at Pets Mart. It was ugly. Being a Floridian and having gills to live in such a humid … Continue reading →

Do you bleed blue and orange when tasered?

Posted: 11:28 pm
September 21, 2007
Friends
11 Comments

I don’t write about politics on this blog but watching tasering video of an annoying little entitled prick really made me proud of my alma mata, University of Florida:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag Why is it so hard for people to show … Continue reading →

Just about 24 hours away from the big bang..

Posted: 10:33 pm
September 21, 2007
OwnWebNow
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I wrote about this a few months ago but we had to step back a bit and look at the picture a little bit differently. In just about 24 hours we’ll be shutting down the NOC, systems, networks, PDUs and … Continue reading →

Bandwidth for Down Under

Posted: 2:48 pm
September 21, 2007
IT Business, OwnWebNow
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Wow, finally some good news hit on a Friday! Google is talking about laying fiber under the Pacific to Asia and Australia. That is remarkably good news for me (well, I suppose for Australia as well) as we have a … Continue reading →

More Zune, Less Cost

Posted: 10:33 am
September 21, 2007
Microsoft
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You can now buy a Zune for $130 at woot.com. I am perhaps the only person that has not won a Zune at a Microsoft giveaway, and lord knows I have ridiculed it to no end… I played with it … Continue reading →

)!).*:[!-(:.).-+.*)

Posted: 12:07 am
September 21, 2007
ExchangeDefender
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Got one of these gems forwarded to me by one of our customers earlier tonight, asking how we went about filtering something like that: Subject: )!).*:[!-(:.).-+.*) Sy!m]b*oool F]D:E(GLast 0.04T ar ge+t 0.12! Now, you can pretty much guess that with … Continue reading →

Vlad’s School of Customer Service: Productivity or Courtesy?

Posted: 7:13 pm
September 20, 2007
IT Business
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Here is another in the series of customer service tips I’d like to share with you: Do your customers expect productivity or courtesy from you? I’d imagine its a little bit of both but it depends on your profession. If your … Continue reading →