If you haven’t read the post earlier this week about Godaddy’s customer service, you really didn’t miss much…other than a rant from me about how bad their service is. I have made the move to Superb Servers. In addition to being $15 per month cheaper than GoDaddy for a similar dedicated server, Superb Servers had [...]
Computer cited for practicing law
March 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This story has been around for a week or so but it was interesting enough (to me at least) to share. The 27B Stroke 6 blog over at Wired.com has an interesting story about a web-based ‘expert-system’ that has been ordered shut down by the California Court system because it was practicing law without a [...]
Customer Service – GoDaddy Style
March 13, 2007 By 8 Comments
I’m not sure if anyone has noticed recently, but my blog (and a few other websites I have on the same server) has been running slowly…so I decided to change from a virtual dedicated server (VDS) to my own dedicated server with the same hosting company. The company, Godaddy.com, prides itself on providing ‘excellent customer [...]
Mike Schaffner: Strategic IT
February 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Mike Schaffner over at the “Beyond Blinking Lights” blog has an interesting post titled “Let’s Get Strategic!” that discusses the need for IT groups to become more strategic. Mike writes: If IT wants to be strategic it has to go beyond just being a order takers and implementers. We need to take the steps necessary [...]
Microsoft Vista DRM is Scary
December 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Just ran across a report on MS Vista’s DRM and content protection system by Peter Gutmann at the University of Auckland (read entire report here). What I read was pretty scary if it is true. The most troubling is that Vista supposedly disables technology on a computer to keep “premium content” (i.e., HD, Blue-ray, etc) [...]
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