I have to give a big shout-out to the folks at Applied Innovations today, located in Boca Raton, FL.  I have four e-commerce websites hosted with them, and despite being located right in the strike zone for Hurricane Wilma, we suffered a website and e-mail outage for only several hours today.  I know we're fortunate that the backbone ...

I'm thrilled to be selected as a Galley Reviewer At Large for ''Naked Conversations'', a forthcoming book by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble (yes, that Scoble, as if he needs the link).  ''Naked Conversations'' looks into how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with their customers.  I'm speaking at the Society of American ...

The date for the Philly VS 2005 / SQL Server 2005 has been changed from December 13th to Nov 17th.  More info as it becomes available.

I'm clearing out The Stack, and here are a couple of nuggets from the December 2004 Fast Company I've been meaning to blog about.  The article focuses on Innovation (and the perceived lack thereof) at Microsoft Venture capitalists typically look at 50-100 deals to find a good $20 million investment.  Microsoft, with its $6.8 billion ...

Note: the following is opinion, based on my personal experiences over the last 20 years in the corporate and academic worlds, using Macs and PCs alike. In the early days of the Mac, Apple had a chance.  A very good chance.  Many big businesses were already accustomed to the slick interface of Xerox ViewPoint workstations, and the Mac ...

Sad day in Geek-land: LOS ANGELES -     James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original ''Star Trek'' TV series and movies who responded to the command ''Beam me up, Scotty,'' died Wednesday. He was 85. more: ...

Dear Parent-Spammers, Sibling-Spammers, Friend-Spammers, etc., If you really loved me, you wouldn't have every e-mail message on auto-forward.  Instead, you'd evaluate the content of the message, maybe check out its claims, and discard the crap.  To wit: There is no spider lurking under toilet seats that will bite your rump. ...

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Has anyone else started getting hit with referral spam?  The last few days I've seen a huge increase in referral spam on my older posts.