Author Archives: Vlad

Guide to Not Reaching Important People: Phone

IT Business, SMB
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If I find myself writing another one of these “basic business etiquette” posts I think I’m going to go write some teenage girl self help book because the attitudes some folks have in business seem more like preteen rages against … Continue reading

Action Pack Changes Q&A from Australia

Microsoft
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Long awaited (and anticipated) changes to the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription are coming. The Australian SBSC blog has some details on the changes in this published Q&A: Update on the Action Pack Changes I don’t know about you but I … Continue reading

Google Temporal Search

Google, Linux
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One of the search features I would really appreciate would be to search for the results available in the database on a particular date. For example, what if you searched for “Bush nucular evidence” in 2001 vs. 2007, you’d get … Continue reading

Reducing Time Wasters: Week 2

Vladville
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Last week I wrote about a few steps that I took to limit my exposure to daily time wasters. I have dropped the Yahoo newsgroups completely now and took a few more steps to free up more time during the … Continue reading

ResponsePoint visits Vladville

Mobility, SMB
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I just got the news from Microsoft’s Jeff Smith that Response Point VoIP system for SMB will be making a visit to Vladville. This is why you go to places like WWPC, I mentioned when they released it and where I … Continue reading

Humble Marketing Tips from a Handyman

SMB
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I wrote about this (and how it came up) on my personal blog but I felt it was perhaps also appropriate to share it with the business crowd on this blog. A long time ago Karl wrote a post, that … Continue reading

I’m suing Scott Adams

Shockey Monkey, Vladville
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I am so suing Scott Adams about this comic: That’s the whole Shockey Monkey business model damnit! It shocks the monkeys so you don’t have to! Gah. I guess now I can delete Erick Simpsons legendary Glengarry Glen Ross impersonation … Continue reading

Change of leadershipin Orlando

IT Culture, OwnWebNow, SMB
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Last weeks Orlando ITPRO meeting has been one of the best ones I’ve ever attended; it was also bittersweet because I was handing over the reigns of the group to the new folks but we made a heck of a party out … Continue reading

People Scare Me

Exchange, System Admin, Vladville
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To this day, Vladville receives most traffic to the technical articles I have written in the past (for the most part in the long, long ago past) and I had to curb it because people would stumble upon them and … Continue reading

Read This Blog Post or Die

Vladville
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The title sounds a little rash but some folks do take blogging, and blog consumption, to addictive levels. Some do it to brag (“I read 3,000 blogs and share 23,000 stories”), some do it to show prestige (“I have posted 320 items … Continue reading