Category Archives: IT Business

Good morning Mother Russia!!!

Posted: 12:15 am
September 18, 2008
IT Business
4 Comments

Woke up this morning a little low on cash with a worthless I.O.U. certificate for AIG up my crack. Government lended $85 billion to a worthless insurance company that leveraged itself to the eyeballs and with a 5% market drop … Continue reading →

Keys to Failure

Posted: 10:28 am
September 16, 2008
IT Business
2 Comments

Everyone likes to talk about the keys to success. But what about the keys to failure? I’m dealing with my own today. I am sitting here with two people in the the Adobe Connect conference and we’re working on the … Continue reading →

What are you doing, Vlad?

Posted: 5:11 pm
September 13, 2008
IT Business
2 Comments

Over the past week I have been complaining about burnout and the ongoing audit and process implementation we are doing. This affects everything from payroll to billing to support to documentation to yes, even me. You see, we all have … Continue reading →

Every mistake is a learning opportunity

Posted: 12:56 am
September 11, 2008
IT Business
2 Comments

We’re about to embark on the largest hiring and marketing bump in the history of my little company. With growth come not just pains but the inevitable fix cycle to prepare and execute the company plan. That sounds all nice … Continue reading →

Well, so much for that MSP idea…

Posted: 12:11 pm
September 4, 2008
IT Business
on Well, so much for that MSP idea…

Buying the new Dell mini laptop and got prompted to sign up for the Dell’s managed services. See if you can top this: “This service covers your household — all family members and all Dell-branded consumer devices under warranty (excludes … Continue reading →

Bad Times For Fruit

Posted: 12:10 am
August 28, 2008
IT Business
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It’s been a rough few weeks for Apple. First the widespread questions about the 3G handsets quality, which turned out to be an issue with the AT&T network. Looming problems with the quality of the iPhone 2.0 Firmware with crashing … Continue reading →

The best way to cause change is…

Posted: 6:29 pm
August 13, 2008
IT Business
on The best way to cause change is…

… to let someone else change things. One of the most awesome things that we’ve learned from opening up the development process, the feature requests, bug tracking and shortly even community participation is that we are no longer the change … Continue reading →

Who knew Henry Ford was an infrastructure VAR?

Posted: 6:27 pm
August 8, 2008
IT Business, Vladville
6 Comments

Today’s guest blog post comes courtesy of the page 18-19 of the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review. I think it sounds eerily similar to the attitudes we’re seeing in the IT field these days and felt it was … Continue reading →

Pampers and Clouds: The end of an IT generation

Posted: 11:11 pm
August 6, 2008
IT Business, IT Culture, Microsoft
6 Comments

Geek Squad Dave first gained notoriety in the newsgroups for his very public lack of ability to grasp the basic concepts of vendor and client management and dealing with cost structure changes. After being condemned in public by most of … Continue reading →

There are no rewards for just doing your job

Posted: 4:53 pm
August 2, 2008
IT Business
8 Comments

Yesterday was a slow day, with all the 1st of the month stuff wrapped up people tend to sit back, refocus, adjust their appointments and plan for the week ahead so Monday morning doesn’t start on a bad note. It’s … Continue reading →