Category Archives: IT Culture

BYOB Update

IT Culture
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Last night we held our first meeting since roughly September and the attendance was fairly good. We had a few regulars, few newbies, few old friends.. all in all it was a good networking meeting and the chance to catch … Continue reading

Orlando ITPRO BYOB Meeting

IT Culture, SMB
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We’re trying this Orlando ITPRO thing again. At some point last year I got so disheartened by the collective disinterest that I handed the ball off to someone I was hoping was dumber than me and would break his back … Continue reading

Yahoo Implements OpenID, sticks with open standards

IT Culture
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Yahoo! has finally jumped behind the OpenID standard and deals yet another strike at the heart of Google and Microsoft’s Hailstorm. So far the best angle I have seen on this story comes from my very good friend Dana Epp, … Continue reading

Bloggers Remorse & Apologies

IT Culture
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The other day someone asked me a question that I didn’t have an immediate response for (yes, it finally happened) and I’ve been weighing it for a few days. Here it is: Do you ever have a case of bloggers … Continue reading

The Brave New Year

IT Culture
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Yesterday I learned how to listen. Not by choice, I went to the UF game on Tuesday (we got whooped) and lost my voice. So yesterday’s meetings were interesting, instead of talking about what we’re supposed to be doing, I … Continue reading

Praise & Purpose

IT Business, IT Culture, Vladville
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Got some pretty big praise for the blog from Karl Palachuk over the weekend, though to be honest it’s pretty high praise every time anyone links to this blog: You may not agree with everything he says, or the way … Continue reading

Vlad Big Book of IT Firm Staffing

IT Business, IT Culture
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From the mailbag: “Just because you’re a sociopath doesn’t disqualify people who won’t carry a mobile phone every time they leave their house from working in the IT field.” Dear gmail.com “IT professional”, since blog comment concept seems to be … Continue reading

The sign you ought to look for a new career…

IT Culture, Vladville
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The sign that you ought to look for a new career always comes up around the holidays when people get a minute to step back from the stress of their job. Stress — no doubt caused by the information overload, … Continue reading

Build a Hackintosh – Progress report on OS X 10.5 live, 10.5.1 too

Apple, Beta, IT Culture
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Just a brief update on the progress as I’ve made some changes to the original hardware in my Building my Hackintosh blog post due to some unforseen compatibility issues. The major change is to the motherboard, I got a Gigabyte GA-945GCMX-S2 … Continue reading

The ant and the grasshopper of the networking world

IT Culture
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I have a little Microsoft Partner fable I’d like to share with you: In a Microsoft TS2 event one summer’s day a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content at the free soda line chatting up … Continue reading