Fair Trade Dinner
This lovely arrangement made with Fair Trade roses was designed by Tania Gindillis at Pensive Weeds. Tania worked with Fair Trade Princeton and chef Anne-Renee Rice-Soumelliant to create the Toujours Chocolat dinner auctioned off at Dining by Design, the fall fundraiser of the Princeton Art Council. Ingredients for ...Dining by Design
This year we had the opportunity to work with the Princeton Arts Council on their Dining by Design event in November. Two fantastic companies donated Fair Trade products that we used to compile goodie bags for all of the guests. Kopali Organics donated their delicious Fair Trade certified dark chocolate ...Jokes, Puns, Funnies
Hillary Clinton Spoof
This Timothy Cooper video is sweeping the Internets after YouTube featured it. ...
Daily Notes, Musings and Thoughts Online
Cybercriminals Now Making House Calls
The old "phony call from Microsoft" scam is back, reports Daniel Wesemann of Internet Storm Center. By impersonating Windows Tech Department, cybercrooks are gaining access to unsuspecting computers and causing boatloads of no-goodness. Read on for more info on their tactics and how to report them.
FBI Won't Save Hacked PCs After July 9, 2012
If you have one of millions of PCs infected by the DNS Changer malware a couple years ago, you may be at risk of losing your internet July 9. The FBI believes about 500,000 computers are still infected as of April 2012. In less than three months these ...Mac's "Flashback" Virus - What To Do if You're Infected
Russian antivirus company Dr. Web recently reported that 600,000 Mac's are now infected with the "Flashback" trojan virus. Read on to see if your machine is infected and what you can do to remove the virus and make sure it doesn't come back.
The Top 8ish Productivity Boosting Apps for iPad
If you're looking to boost your productivity, there's no better device than the iPad. It's portable, powerful, and extremely easy to use. These 8(ish) apps were designed to help you work smarter on the iPad, not harder.
Ad-Supported Apps Suck Major Battery Power
I'm willing to bet that every smartphone user has at least one ad-run application on their phone. A new study now suggests that those addicting game and news apps end up hitting you where it hurts - your battery.
Simple Email Advice
A few recent email messages that came to my inbox made me think that we could all use some reminders to help us avoid simple (but potentially embarrassing) mistakes.
Pause for a moment before sharing the email addresses of friends. Every few weeks I get an email from someone with ...New Mac Trojan Swipes Usernames and Passwords
The latest version of an infamous Mac virus has reared its ugly head once again. Known as ‘Flashback’, this Trojan injects malicious code into web browsers while scanning for usernames and password information. Find out how SureTech can protect you from this "particularly insidious" virus here.
Hey Google, Get Your Hands Off My Data!
March 1st ushers in a new Google privacy policy. What this means is that all of your prior search data will be used by the company to gather even more information from you without your knowledge. Check out these links for step-by-step instructions on how to clear your history fast.
Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders
This is a really nice book outlining some important Web performance keys. The only downside is that by being almost three years old, it’s already dated. But some of the core concepts are not going to change because they are key to having a web page display and work ...6 Ways Tech Can Boost Sales for Small Businesses
Small businesses that are smart about leveraging technology can start to see impressive sales improvements and achieve great things. Check out this article for some easy ways to make tech work for you.
Email for Kids
Kids are using email at an earlier age than ever before. And it can be a really useful thing to let them communicate with grandparents and other relatives that are spread around the world. But, how do we keep kids safe when using email. There are a number of ways ...Steve Jobs Remembered in Cartoons
Steve Jobs may have left us a while ago, but little reminders of his legacy can be seen everyday. Check out these cartoons celebrating his life, work ethic, and quirks that made him so unique.
5 Gadgets We've Loved and Lost
After Kodak's untimely tap-out, C-Net decided take a look at other products and brands that went from being the “biggest thing” to almost obsolete in the age of digital media. Check out some of our favorite gadgets throughout the years and see what’s made them extinct. Here’s a hint – it’s probably a smart phone.
8 Tips for a Healthier Laptop
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Mashable, in conjunction with GeekSugar.com, unveiled 8 tips for keeping your laptop computer in tip-top shape. Show your computer some love this Valentine’s Day with these simple fixes!
How to Become an Outlook Power User
Some people are fine with simply receiving and sending mail through Outlook - but these tips are for the rest of us. The power-users who want to customize their Outlook experience will find more than enough info in this highly informative article.
Give Your Excel Knowledge a Kick in the Pants
Everyone uses Excel, but not everyone uses it to its fullest capacity. These Microsoft videos will have you spreading like a pro in no time. Learn formulas to make your life easier and graphs to make your ideas come to life. Read more here.
Zend and the Art of WebApp Development
I’ve worked on several web applications recently and I’ve been using pieces of the Zend Framework for them. A while back I reviewed a number of PHP libraries and decided that for our needs, the Zend Framework was ideal. Now that I’ve used it for a few applications, I’m convinced ...Kids and Computers - Introduction
A few weeks ago at a “Boxing Day” party, I was asked for the second time in as many months about protecting kids using computers. I shouldn’t find this surprising since my daughter and her friends are tweens and starting to use computers and other devices that connect to the ...Happy Holidays 2011 from Topaz
May you have a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous 2012! - Your SureTech.com Solutions TeamNew Year's Resolutions - Take Back Your Workday Tips
Still struggling to stay productive in the age of distraction? Tony Wong recently sat down and discussed the top 7 ways in which your organization can keep productivity and focus while still staying connected.
Dining by Design a Hit!
On November 5th, SureTech took part in the Princeton Arts Councils Dining by Deisgn event. Check out some highlights from the night, including a slideshow video of the amazing art created by many of the programs participants.
iPhone Update More Trouble Than It’s Worth
If you just bought the new iPhone 4s, Apple's latest update to iOS 5 may fix your battery-draining problems - or it may make them worse. iPhone users across the country are split down the middle; some claiming "my battery life is awesome!" and some, well, aren't so lucky.
Google Android Almost Always Out of Date
With a multitude of developers and smart phone manufacturers pumping out newer phones, it is becoming harder to update older versions. We explore the wonderful world of Android Fragmentation. Myth? Legend? Horror story told to junior software developers? Check out our post and see how these smartphones match up to one another, and more importantly with Apple's iPhone.
Smartphone Apps - Like Dates, Good to Know Where They've Been
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The new HTC Droid security flaw proves that when you download an open-source app, you're inviting the developers into your home, taking off their shoes, and giving them a foot massage (so to speak.)
10 Immutable Laws of Mistakes
Mistakes are inevitable but we strive to learn from them, making them a point of growth and not a set-back. Below is an article illustrating principles and an attitude we at SureTech.com stand behind and work to emmulate.
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Jim Farrell made new Director of Solutions Operations
We are pleased to announce that we have officially promoted Jim Farrell to Director of Solutions Operations. We are proud to have him in this important role and privileged to have his leadership as we continue to grow our operations.Beware Hack Attack in Disguise as Payment Processing
The latest hack attacks we are seeing are links within a payment style email. Always check the from address on any email that asks you to click on a link. You can see here the from is not at all the same. From: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript [mailto: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScriptDropBox Buzz helps promote our SureFiles™ Solution
There is a lot of buzz around DropBox and box.net - both area great services for sharing files with another person. This buzz is a boon to our business too since our SureFiles™ offers a better business solution than DropBox and Box.net because it is integrated with Active Directory ...Armstrong Industrial Hose Launches New Garden Hose Line
We created an ecommerce website for Amstrong Industrial Hose's new garden hose line. Fun colors of hose and great durable product.
This is Success?! New Viruses on Macs
The days where Macs are the one impenetrable place for viruses unfortunately seem to be over. New malware attacks are popping up more frequently on Macs these days. We now recommend AntiVirus for your Mac as well.
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By ...Don't Ever Do A Startup - Gospel
Why NOT To Do a Startup. View more presentations from Dave McClureHack Attacks Through Osama Photos
Hackers love to take advantage of big news sensations to introduce new viruses. Stay away from any Osama photo links or video links. There are major hack attacks happening particularly through facebook.com posts right now encouraging friends to click on death videos! Read more below via http://wnyt.com Beware ...Bin Laden Facebook Hack Attack
Beware Criminals Using Bin Laden for Email, Facebook Hack Attack For getting attention, the only thing more reliable than a train reck is a historic international train wreck like the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Looking at the bloody pictures is so natural, impuslive and reliable that criminals have a ...Email Chain Viruses - Best Practice Tips
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Avoid Worms | Big Files | Email Chains |SPAM | Using Outlook
A client recently sent us a copy of an email that warned her in capital letters of a terrible virus that is going around the internet and steps to take to protect herself ...First Introduction of the Book
New systems can frustrate any user.
We like to think no user question is too small for a quality and calm answer from our HelpDesk!
Virtual Office can Save Time even in Customs Checks
I read with interest the NY Times article "Can You Frisk a Hard Drive" (The New York Times, by David Shipler, February 19, 2011) about how actual computers are subject to searches when traveling now. This is yet another way our SureDesk™ service and having a virtual office can help ...Pinning Down the Cloud
Potential customers say to us all the time as we describe our services "So THAT'S what cloud computing means." Cloud computing can really mean lots of different things to people, but most basically it is a hosted solution to a technology need that traditinally resided on a local ...Digital Nativity
The tools don't make the soul. Merry Christmas :)
Happy Holidays 2010 From Massmind Studio
Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!Performance Talk Slides
The slides for my talk on Performance at Pace can be found here - http://imgdr.massmind.com/uploads/suretech/file/Pace Performance talk.pdfPerformance
I am giving a talk in about a week at Pace University on improving performance of applications (where I’m using the term “application” to mean anything that interacts with a user – a program running on an iPhone or Windows computer, a web site, etc.). To help prepare for ...The Future Is Here
One of these days I'd love someone to tell me the story of how Minority Report got ahold of the UI for the iPhone 5 years before the iPhone was released...
AdKeeper Duh - Of course I needed that
Where was that ad again? I always hate ads that distract from good content - except when it's that one thing I'm interested in. But that's not when I want to look at it! In the old days when we only had to keep track of 7 things a week, ...Does Love Have No Balls Anymore?
Why are the thoughtful protests these days by comedians?
NY Times reports: Fort Benning Protest Dwindles
There seem to be plenty of reactive retro-angry provincialist protests, but what happened to the transformationalists? There's plenty to worry about that is keeping us away from a better world, so who's agitating ...Antoine Amrani Chocolates Launches New Shopping Cart
We just helped Antoine Amrani Chocolates launch a new shopping cart so check it out and enjoy!
As chocolate lovers, we could not be happier to support a client that makes the most exquisite and delectable chocolate we've ever had.
New York City - The Gateway to the U. S. Marketplace - An Alternative Office Space Solution
The Big Apple is home to more top Fortune 500 companies than any other city, has three major airports serving it, and hosts the world's largest financial center. Now, market conditions make this the ideal time to open an office with New York City as your base of ...Hiding .svn Folders through .htaccess
One way many people use to keep their website updated is through a source control tool such as SVN. We've found it a useful tool to keep track of changes, allow developers or designers to work on files and to make sure the right files end up on the web server ...Great Leadership
I try to keep my non-business interests (such as college basketball and my favorite team winning a national championship) out of this blog but the passing of John Wooden last weekend is something I think trancends sports. John Wooden was not just an amazing college basketball coach (having won twice as ...Doing What You Can to Finish
Tuesday of last week I spent much of my day painting walls for a house that our local Habitat for Humanity chapter. It was a lot different than my usual work and it gave me time to think about the parallels between working on the house and shipping software. First, ...What do I get for my IT Budget?
Most IT Budgets just maintain your status quo
In this age of constant change why do most budgets contain very little room for improving efficiency and communications?
Because most IT budgets are maintaining 90% of what they don't need to get the 10% the actually use.
SureTech.com's mission is ...Data is Infinite
Do You feel Overwhelmed by Data, Information and Emails?
You're right, you are overwhelmed.
Essentially infinitely overwhelmed, in fact.
The cost of diseminating information is nearly zero, so information you could never have imagined 20 years ago now finds its way to you. Storing information is very cheap, so ...What is the True Cost of my IT?
Our goal is to eliminate break/fix to the greatest extent possible.
Complexity and Onsite Maintenance are EXPENSIVE
The vast majority of IT costs for the typical organization are related to emergency repairs and the labor, equipment and primarily, lost productiviyt costs associated with a system not functioning optimially.
Proper maintenance ...Running To Fight River Blindness
May 1st was the May Day 5K Race to support the United Front Against River Blindness. This is a mosquito born blinding disease affecting millions in the Congo and at the same time easy to cure. One pill every year for 10 years stops the disease. Each runner funded treatment ...Tombola 2010
We were delighted to be part of the Arts Council of Princeton's Pinot to Picasso - Vintage 2010 fund-raiser this year.
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Cloud computing. Cloud financials. Web-based on-demand applications. Software ...Seven Deadly Sins
Operating a successful business in todays economic times is difficult, even for a well-managed company. Now, add the complexity of the worst recession since the Great Depression. It is no surprise that commercial bankruptcies, among the nation's more than 25 million small businesses, have increased by approximately 44% from the third quarter of 2008 to the third quarter of 2009, according to Equifax Inc. So what is a business owner to do? Avoid these SEVEN DEADLY SINS!
SureMail Outage - 12-28-09
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. -Abraham Lincoln What a bright guy, that honest Abe... Sadly, sometimes here at SureTech.com we get the most recognition when a system has trouble. Especially business critical system, like email. So, when ...Happy Holidays 2009 from SureTech.com and Topaz Group
Love, Peace, Joy and all best wishes to you from SureTech.com and Topaz.
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Small Is Beautiful
I tend to like to write on my keyboard on my lap or on a lap bench...
Tombola 2009
In April we helped with the Arts Council of Princeton's Tombola 2009 fund-raiser. We had a fun time creating a rotating display using Flash of all the art work that played while the attendees were milling around and a Tombola countdown for the auction portion of the event to show ...What is the Cloud Anyway?
Cloud Buzz
Everybody's heard the buzz, but most people I talk to are confused about how to understand "The Cloud." Even for many that understand the buzz or work with Cloud computers, explaining The Cloud can be daunting.
Cloud Explanations and Illustrations
I usually explain it using a napkin network diagram of the internet which is ...
Defense in Depth
Today I want to talk about the benefits of defense in depth. The term “defense in depth” is used in a variety of ways. I like to think of it as a general term to describe any system where you have multiple layers of protection. If one layer fails, another ...Why Too Many Choices Can Be Bad
My cell phone provider lost a sale yesterday because they gave me too many choices (and not enough information at their store). Luckily for them, I’m not about to switch cell phone providers, but it is an example of how providing your customers choices without information about why they’d choose ...Datacenter Highlights
SureTech.com has partnered with some of the most secure, reliable and respected tier 1 data centers in the world. With locations in New York, Pittsburg, Chicago, Florida, Virginia and the UK, our hosted services are managed, secure, distributed and redundant to protect your data and provide peace of ...Some Attention to The Infrastructure
The NY Times magazine goes so far as to call datacenters, the cloud, which is a slightly different focus than the napkin network diagram I like to draw...
We're Popular, I guess
We had a problem Saturday morning (4/4/09) with all of our websites that use any of our databases. It appears that someone attempted to hack into our site by trying various standard attacks and while, to the best of our knowledge, none of those attacks worked, the number of requests overwhelmed ...Sending Big Files - Best Practice Tips
Safe Internet Use Tips
Worms | Big Files | Email Chains |SPAM | Using Outlook
A client recently went to a meeting where he assumed an email he sent had arrived at his client's inbox. When he learned it did not, he became alarmed and called us.
We investigated ...Avoiding Great Service but Bad Value
13 Hours and $1,400.00 To upgrade my Hard Drive?!?
We’ve always said that Managed Services for IT is usually a flawed business model. Pretty much the better job you do the less you make. Kinda like lawyers, I guess, except at least we talk about ...Backups, Backups, Backups
I’ve been thinking a lot about backups recently for a variety of reasons. First, I’ve been involved in setting up a fund to honor the high school teacher who first taught me the importance of good backups. He hired me to help with the high school mini-computers and one ...Running Windows Update on Windows Server Core
We're running Windows Server 2008 core on our backup domain controller. I'm not completely convinced this is a good idea yet (even though I'm the one who suggested it). The lack of a UI seems to really hobble some functionality. Today I wanted to run windows update on that machine ...Windows Authentication and IIS - Seems Counterintuitive to Me
I'm working on my first ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2008 running on a 2008 Server. It's a simple thing, just designed to get some information from our users. I did need them to authenticate themselves against Active Directory prior to visiting the webpage. I turned on Windows Authentication ...Apple Scores on Service
American based, for american customers - and email.
That's pretty much the price of excellent service these days. If you outsource your service to a place that doesn't care about your customers ... - view comments
Einstein Imagined SureTech.com
Who are we to argue with Genius? Einstein was ahead of us on the internet AND SureTech.com! - View Comments
How does my web browser connect to a website?
When you type in somedomain.com your internet service sends a message to a machine called a name server owned by your internet service and asks this machine “hey, where do I find the website for somedomain.com?” - view comments
Happy Holidays 2008 from TopazGroup
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Love, Peace, Joy and all best wishes to you from Topaz Group.
Holiday Potluck 2008
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Please let Bonnie or Dana know what you plan to bring!
We are planning ...That's NOT What I Meant By "Cleaning Up the Audio"
My church records it's Sunday morning services so we can put the sermon on our website for people to listen to who miss a Sunday. I'm in charge of getting the CompactFlash card out of the recorder, bringing it home, editing the audio down to the sermon, and placing it ...But I am an Administrator
It's annoying when the things designed to protect us just get in our way. Today I was doing some work on our file server and wanted to check out some ways to see how much disk space was being used by certain clients without having access to their folders (I'm ...Book Review: Network Warrior
We've been having some interesting network issues that I've been tracking down and we've been trying to figure out how to set up our clients with our datacenter in Miami. I came across a book whose title looked interesting - Network Warrior by Gary A. Donahue. It is an O'Reilly ...Windows System Restore Saves the Day Again
I'm a big fan of Windows System Restore and today reminded me of just how great a feature it is. Hats off to the folks who thought it up and implemented it. I was installing a new VPN client on my main machine and, foolishly I will add, had two ...Cloud Computing: Is It Safe?
Cloud Computing: Is It Safe?
By Alan Cohen from Law.com
Corporate Counsel
October 31, 2008
If there's one tried-and-true way to tackle a problem, it's to make it someone else's problem. It's the strategy that's given us plumbers, fluff-and-fold laundry and lawn services. Yet for a long time, corporate ...IT Trends For 2009
We are pleased to share these trends via Baseline:
Organizations are increasingly looking to next-generation social networking tools to conduct sophisticated business intelligence and analytics. In many cases, they are mining data and looking for trends and patterns, such as which salesperson has the relationships to pull off a deal ...Google Message Filtering and StartLogic
One of our consulting clients has a huge problem with spam (mostly because their previous website displayed their email addresses for all to see in plain text which made life easy for email harvesters). The other problem is that some of their email addresses are very common and thus also ...What do I do with this email warning me of a virus?
Any mail that has obviously been forwarded as a chain letter warning of just about anything, even if the warning is true is almost guaranteed to be some specie of SPAM. Sometimes messages like this refer to partially true threats, but the goal of the originator of the message ...
Sum Ergo Sum
I just picked up “Love is the Killer App” at a café wherein Tim Sanders describes love as the ultimate competitive weapon in business. I have a friend who’s making a go for the fourth year working at home with her husband so they can be close to the kids. ...Editor's Note November 2008
I wonder sometimes how change became the banner of the two parties. Wouldn't I rather see "Vote McCain for Paradise Now?" Change only tells me what I'm leaving, not where I'm going. Yale, when I arrived at 18, seemed immutable, monolithic and anti-change. Hadn't it been as I found it for 300 years? But having been involved with Yale now for 20 years, I've come to see the extent to which Yale is the result of an incredible diversity of voices sounding and sometimes clamoring across time, space and context. All change Yale in their own ways, big and small. And it has been the commitment to the ideals of excellence, discernment and truth in those voices that has made Yale adapt so well and be as great as it is. They may make a bad political bumper sticker, but those ideals make the change for the best at Yale, in NY and in the world. YAAMNY exists to help in some small way make change for the for the better in NY. And I hope you will make change yours and for the best on election day and every day in the communities where you live.
Have you noticed the changing leaves are especially radiant this fall? Perhaps the leaves are hanging on a little longer and the reds and ambers have just enough life in the leaves to glow. Or perhaps they are resonating with the political moment, CHANGE. Rebublican, Democrat or undecided all seem intent on the thought. So perhaps the leaves are singing that message too.
Universal Wisdome copied from MS Outlook
A Reading from the Isha Upanishad The Self is one, unmoving, swifter than the mind. The senses lag, but the It moves ahead. Unmoving, it outruns pursuers. It being there, Air[1] supports all activities. Unmoving, it moves. It is far away, yet near. It is ...Startup Business Models: One Chicken vs RocketBoom
There are basically two ways to start a business that I'll call the buy a chicken model and the RocketBoom model. Rocketboom was the first videoblog to roll out a daily show and build a large audience successfully. As the first it commands a fairly permanent piece of popular consciousness ...Xobni for Outlook is awesome except it doesn't work.
Xobni which is inbox spelled backwards is an absolutely terrific plug in for Microsoft Outlook except for the small fact that it doesn't work... - view comments
SPECIAL EARLY SEPTEMBER EVENTS FOR YALE ALUMNI IN NYC!
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Before you take off for the long weekend, we wanted to make sure you heard about the very cool end-of-summer rooftop party with UPenn, Northwestern and Notre Dame at the swanky Maritime Hotel on Sept. 2. PLUS on Sept. 9, there's a special Young Alumni Welcome to NYC reception at the Yale Club. See below for more details! Have a great Labor Day!
What's your job?
This may seem like a silly question to some, but I think it's often easy for us to forget what our job really is. I'm going to write this from the perspective of a Software Developer, but it applies equally well to all job functions. As programmers, we have often ...Why The Mission Matters
A good friend who is also a Camaldolese Monk, was visiting us this weekend. Like so many of us, our friend lives in a wonderful nexus of contradictions. Not only is he a monk, but he travels the world, singing and teaching about the monastic life. Traveling and being ...Real Life Journey
"I might as well settle in," Anna told me one fall day in 1993. We had both moved to New York along with about a quarter of our graduating class the year before. "I kept thinking I would start my life someday, and was living out of boxes, ...Thriving in the Social Internet
These notes are in preparation for the Einstein Alley Panel June 23, 2008. The wall street journal reports today that medieval jousting is back in vogue in Europe. What's interesting to me about this is that the reporter Max Colchester specifically credits the internet with bringing jousting back to ...Never trust user input
One of the most common security issues I see in code from new web developers (and even some experienced ones) is not sanitizing user input. They trust user input to have always come from a non-adversarial user interacting with the site through a web browser. Given the HTTP(S) protocol, there is ...Watching your code execute
When I was a younger (and more foolish programmer) I was fortunate enough to learn from some talented software developers. One of the many important lessons I learned was the benefits of watching your code excute. Now, to some, that may sound as exciting as watching the grass grow. But ...Alberto Molina on Einstein Alley Panel on Thriving in the New Social Internet
Join me June 23, 2008 for a very interesting discussion on society, business and technology: Topic: Thriving in the New Social Internet Speakers: Dr. Charles Kreitzberg. Alberto Molina, Anne Kreitzberg Location: Sante Fe Grille – Upstairs private dining room Date: Monday June 23, 2008 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM ...Service Outage for Hosted Microsoft Exchange
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Service Outage for Hosted Microsoft Exchange Services Due to Thunderstorm at Data Center - July 6, 2008 (One Hour and 28 Minutes)
This morning, we experienced a service outage starting at 8:42 AM EDT. Service to most customers was restored by 9:55 AM, with all customers having full service by 10:10 ...Why am I Blogging?
A reasonable question to ask really. My main audience at this point is the development staff at Topaz Group. We are separated both by space and time. By space, because we are spread out and do not share offices or even the same area code. By time because I know ...Book Review: Secure Coding: Principles and Practices
Last time I reviewed one of two books on security that I had recently read. This time I'll review the other book - Secure Coding: Princeiples & Practices by Mark G. Graff and Kenneth R. van Wyk (and published by O'Reilly which puts out excellent books in general). This ...Thriving with the Social Internet
Thriving in the New Social Internet The new social world of the internet represents far more than finding a friend on Facebook or keeping a diary on line for anyone to see. New Web technology, also referred to as social media or Web 2.0, is unstoppably shifting the way ...Editor's Note May 2008
Greetings,
Last month we promised a party and we're delivering TWO. My Luu's Spring Fling is sold out, and the very next day, Amanda Taffy has been working hard on a Best Buddies benefit at Plumm. The Events calendar is full of excuses to get together.
Your participation is THE KEY to this and many many thanks are due to the 50 Alums and friends who took a couple days out last week to work on the strategic planning retreat for YAAMNY.
In addition to the several key initiatives coming out of that retreat I'd like to specifically highlight Doreen Oliver's new leadership of the Arts and Entertainment group and Amanda Taffy's continuing work in the Public Service group - details below. If you would like to work on other important events, such as professional development events and talks, please get in touch with us!
Last but not least please have a look at Jaradoa Theatre's new production: The Small of Her Back which opens tomorrow and is hosting a special YAAMNY night May 19th. And for an extra special treat, see below for a very limited seating dinner with the founders of Jaradoa hosted by yours truly.
Book Review: The Security Development Lifecycle
Security is something that is very important in all kinds of applications today. I have many more articles I want to write about security (particularly since we fixed a recent security hole). I'm going to start, however, with a review of one of two books I read recently on security. ...The Great Inclusion - Politicians, Doers and Bureaucrats
Do-ocracy Nicole Possin '94 attended a reception last March 31 where we were discussing some of the ideas of what YAAMNY should be and she stood up and described YAAMNY as a potential "Do-ocracy." An institution, I gathered, dedicated to enabling other people to "DO" and organize around whatever ...A Diverse Family at the YAAMNY 2008 Strategic Planning Retreat
Over 50 people showed up this Friday night and Saturday to discuss what YAAMNY could and should be. 32 of us were current board members, advisers, former YAAMNY leaders and alums new to YAAMNY. The additional attendees were spouses, kids and AYA Staff.
YAAMNY 2008 Strategic Planning Retreat Reflections by Nicole Rose
This weekend I am having the experience of coming together with diverse members of the Yale Alumni community of New York in a discussion that is encouraging the expansion of ideas through an all day strategic planning session directed at developing a scope of vision and objectives for YAAMNY. The ...Want to be happier? Check out this blog!
Yale College (Silliman) '89 /Yale Law School '94 Fellow Yale alums -- I'm working on a book, THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, about the year I spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages and the current scientific studies about how to be happier -- I report on what works and what doesn't. Come ...The Declining Power of The Firm
We're a long way from Firms becoming not powerful. The fact that power flows to the center and the reach of an existing power base and known channels of distribution are not going to evaporate.
So News of the demise of the Firm is clearly premature. But the ...Organizing YAAMNY Stretegic Planning Retreat
It's an exciting time for YAAMNY as we develop the Agenda for our Strategic Planning retreat this weekend. I spent this morning working with Jenny on formulating the goal and deliverables for the weekend. It's incredibly interesting to work on figuring out how to adapt our currently completely virtual ...Utopia
Light On The Hill
When Barak Obama said recently that we cannot only talk to our friends but must also be willing sometimes to talk with our enemies, when he implied that talking could prevent increased conflict and when he explained that additional personal intervention in diplomatic dialog would be ...9 Planets and the Doctrine of Preemptive Strike
The Doctrine of Preemptive Strike
One evening in 2002 a friend of mine was home in New York form his job at the Department of Justice and we met for a drink at the Four Seasons. The DOJ is in one of these buildings that embodies mega institution. ...ESPN Arcade Direct Links
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MassMind studio is the newest division at Topaz Group, focused on premium look and feel interactive video games and multiplayer games. The studio leverages the TopazPort CMS/CRM platform to bring a robust community management infrastructure to games and online interactive events. The Studio currently publishes games developed by independent developers ...
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