Category Archives: IT Business

Flying on the river of excuses

IT Business, Vladville
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Earlier this morning I battled fog, two accident delays, leaving one of my bags at home and general sleepiness on my way to the airport. I made it on time, and proceeded to spend the next 50 minutes in line … Continue reading

Channel needs a huge kick in the ass (weekend reading)

IT Business
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Channel, which is the name stupid marketing people at big hardware firms call the collection of VARs, MSPs, resellers and computer builders, is dying. (you might not like what I have to say) Let’s not argue about that, we have … Continue reading

The Importance of Guarding

IT Business
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Over the past few months many people have complimented me on my weight loss and apparently more positive attitude. To all of those comments I have responded with the following: “Heroin is absolutely AWESOME!!!!!” Now I’ve never done drugs in … Continue reading

Talk it out… Talk it out…

IT Business
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I’m in Dallas at the MSPU event and I have to admit they have really brought out an impressive attendance. Quite impressive. I don’t really want to give Erick all the credit in the world for it, but it is … Continue reading

The Fresent

IT Business
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Exciting, exciting time… We’re on our final day of big time network deployments and upgrades to our network to prepare for two huge product launches that will carry OWN through the next 12-18 months. To say that we’re full in … Continue reading

Death Reincarnate

IT Business
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Yes, I’m alive. No, I have not suffocated under the pile of money we made in Q3 and ExchangeDefender is well on it’s way to being a defacto security platform with 5.0 release coming-any-day-now-Duke-Nukem-Forever-style. Yes, that’s really me on Facebook. … Continue reading

Let’s do it tomorrow…

IT Business
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I read a lot of self help books. Not because I really need help, mostly because deep down inside I’m pretty sure I’m an idiot. Just not quite sure about the extent of it. So it’s nice to have it … Continue reading

The Karl Principle

IT Business
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As my buddy Alex Rogers from Chartec would say, you’ll need to turn down your sensitivity meter. “You shouldn’t do business with assholes. You are in business to make money, not take abuse.” Sign of business maturity is when you … Continue reading

Patience, Patience…

IT Business
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My last few points have raised a lot of interest. In the past week I’ve received more mail and direct contacts than I’ve received in all of 2009. At first I thought someone had broken my captcha and just slammed … Continue reading

Before the Mushroom Cloud

IT Business
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Welcome to Vladville. This is typically when I’d get on a long-winded, insult-laced, grammatically-abusive explanation of something very obvious and basic. Really, common sense that is apparent to anyone that took more than 5 minutes to think about things. But … Continue reading