Business, technology, security, and the world around me

Stupid is as stupid does(n’t)

Today I had a boo boo. My work Macbook Pro died. No warning, just dead.  For sometime I have been meaning to setup a backup solution for both of my Macbook Pros so that I can have backups and be able to copy files between systems because I am lazy and hate carrying my laptop [...]

Airport Security – Domestic and Abroad

Recently I took a trip to Colombia, South America.  During this trip I observed some interesting things with airport security.
Colombia is only really concerned with drugs.  When entering the country I was barely searched by their version of TSA and Customs.  The gentleman working the xray machine did not even watch it as my bags [...]

Delete long Viddler tag

I uploaded a video to Viddler and mistakenly pasted the video URL into the tags field. When I went to delete this tag by clicking the (x) next to the tag, I realized the (x) was not there. Because of the length of the tag, the (x) did not display.
There was two ways I [...]

Twitter Marketing FAQ and 101

I have spent a lot of talking to people and companies about their on web 2.0/3.0/Something.0 strategies. Part of these strategies often include Twitter.
Below are some Twitter tips that you might find useful.
The biggest tips I can share are:
1. Follow more people
2. Post more and tie posts back to your website or content that [...]

How To Assess Offshore Data Security

Hot off the presses by yours truly.
“The global IT outsourcing trend shows every sign of continuing, with two-thirds of the 2007 InformationWeek 500 tapping offshore outsourcing. With experience, companies get confident in moving ever-more-sensitive IT or business processing work abroad…[Read More]“

WE ARE HIRING!!!! [Update: Positon filled]

Come work in the magical world of Walt Disney – Security Engineer.

Scheduling – Quick Note

Via Darren Herman’s blog I found an old post that pointed to TimeBridge. This is an idea I thought of a long time ago but wasn’t interested in purusing. I am glad someone did as scheduling meetings is a huge pain for me.
I even recall mentioning this to Darren on the phone back in [...]

Bad Bloggers!

So apparently Jesper and I have been having the same issue with the IDThieves blog/news site/whatever trying to steal out content.  BAD BLOGGERS!!

Weekly Links

I missed last week’s post so here are a few links I wanted to share last week or from this week. More Friday.
Love the Web 2.0 Bubble video.
Seattle Startup UI Review
EPIC-FU 
Disneyjobs  –shameless plug
Do you want to be Rich, or be the King?

Startup News

A few things to comment on in the startup world today:

Amazon has narrowed their Startup Challenge down to 7 contestants. If you are not familiar with this challenge, here is a blurb from Amazon:

“Amazon Web Services (AWS) is searching for the next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and business. [...]