Let’s face it, it is easy to fire someone who is a total menace. When it comes to someone you despise, vengeance can come quickly and mercilessly, severing the former employee from the company in a master stroke. And to be honest, you probably feel good about it too. But what about firing someone...
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Growing Pains: Lessons that should have been learned from Microsoft
I am not sure how many have been reading the Microsoft Confessions at Beta News, but they have been quite interesting. As a quick synopsis, Joe Wilcox at Beta News talked to some people who were layed off from Microsoft and the stories were interesting. Judging from the comments I can tell that a...
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Tech Specs: What are they good for? Absolutely nothing
I have often wondered why web hosting plans are sold by technical specs… computers too for that matter. Don’t get me wrong, technical specifications of a product are pretty much as detailed as it gets for buying purposes. It can tell us exactly what we need to know. However, without some form of training...
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Google, Search Market Leader, and Lying Evil Empire
I hope everyone had a delightful holiday season. For myself I had a variety of projects that ended up taking more of my time that I had planned, but now I am here again providing more useful commentary than a well-trained yak. Which is fairly considerable considering how considerate the abilities of a well-trained...
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Ramblings on moving a company
Before the holidays I managed to interview Haralds Jass, CEO of dedicated server hosting company Superb Hosting, on the moving of their corporate headquarters to Honolulu, Hawaii. That interview will be out at Web Host Magazine next week Wednesday.
The interview was fairly informative and a few points caught my interest. Two points in...
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Abort-Retry-Fail: Hotmail Phishing Uncover Sad State of Password Security
I have a mental list of the 30 passwords I use on a daily basis. These passwords are never less than 8 characters and they include all manner of things from caps, to numbers, odd characters, and if I am allowed really crazed ASCII characters (which I am only rarely allowed). Not to toot...
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Partnerka: Get Paid for Infecting Macs
Reading the blogs from Sophos, I came upon a gem, Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac. What is even more spectacular about this is the fact that I just read (maybe a week or two ago) a news article that asks do Mac users really need to have anti-virus software?
When I...
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Data Center Efficiency:What about Customer Support?
There are a lot of definitions of efficiency, but I think my personal favorite is,†the ratio of output to input in any system.†If what you get is close to the amount of what you put in its efficient.
Energy efficiency is therefore the ratio between the amount of work produced and the amount...
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SEM: Adding up changes – PPC Campaigns
We human like bold moves. How many of us have cheered out our favorite teams who put up the winning, homerun, touchdown, goal, basket, etc when there is no time on the clock and the air is thick with tension? Or how many of us have made a big change in life and thought,...
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Gender Bias and Sexism in IT
I don’t often discuss topics like this on the blog, in fact I believe this is the first time, but an article I read made me think. The article in question is from TechNewsWorld entitled Is Sexism Rampant in FOSS? What I find funny about this title is that it almost connotates that sexism...
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