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24 Jul 2009How vendors tick people off
I just experienced a situation with a vendor that made me realize how they often lose the interest of the very people they need to be on their side.I'll spare the details to protect the guilty but if you're a vendor here are a few things you have to consider if you want to win over consultants, resellers, analysts, and potential customers with your cool product:Prepare beforehand and at least ...
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23 Jul 2009
What life are you choosing?
Here's a great quote from Peter Williams that'll make you think about your career and your life:"We are all, right now, living the life we choose."Remember, you can set goals for yourself or be doomed forever to achieve the goals of someone else. As Og Mandino said: Use wisely your power of choice....
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23 Jul 2009
“Change” sells but who’s buying?
So in the past year we've gone from:"global warming" to "climate change" (esp. with the ridiculous cap and trade bill that's going to further hurt our economy)Islamic terrorism to "man-caused disaster" ...and the latest in the Obamacare scam we heard about last night:healthcare reform to "health insurance reform"Boy are our so-called leaders sneaky! It's amazing how these politicians change their wording up ever so slightly to make their schemes sound ...
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22 Jul 2009
Neat tool for keeping the riff-raff off your Web systems
I'm not sure how big a problem content and bandwidth theft are but I suspect they're getting worse with blogging, Twitter, and so on. If this is something that's affecting you, check out LinkDeny. Pretty cool solution for keeping junk requests away from your IIS-based sites/apps....
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22 Jul 2009
My latest security content
Here's my latest information security content you may be interested in:E-discover the gaps in your information management processWeb security problems: Five ways to stop login weaknessesFixing four Web 2.0 input validation security mistakesSpotting rich Internet application security flaws with WebGoatCommon causes of Windows server security vulnerabilitiesManaging multiple passwords in WindowsAs always, be sure to check out www.principlelogic.com/resources.html for all of my information security articles, podcasts, webcasts, screencasts, my Twitter updates, ...
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21 Jul 2009
Are you idling or powering ahead?
In a previous post I wrote about how so many people waste so much time at work....the worst possible time in anyone's career to not be working all out.Well, here's a great quote by Thomas Jefferson that'll help motivate you to stay busy and resolve to get things done:"Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."Don't let Facebook, eBay, ESPN, ...
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20 Jul 2009
Imagine signing off on something you haven’t read
Jeff Jacoby with the Boston Globe made an excellent point in his article regarding the Read The Bills Act (the law we need to prevent our own lawmakers from carelessly passing laws they haven't read nor understand).Jeff said: "Senators and representatives who vote on bills they haven't read and don't understand betray their constituents' trust. It is no excuse to say that Congress would get much less done if every ...
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17 Jul 2009
A way to keep the RF in your RFID
In case you're as concerned as I am about this, we now have a way to keep our RFID-tagged passports and driver's license secure. Just another public service announcement.......
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17 Jul 2009
Are you a doer?
Here's a great quote from Wayne Dyer that helps explain successful people along with why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer:"A non-doer is very often a critic - that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."Which side are you on?...
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17 Jul 2009
SSNs a thing of the past?
You may have already heard about this (I just got around to reading it). It's about how researchers at Carnegie Mellon have reverse engineered the Social Security Number assignment scheme. With just the birth date and state of birth SSNs can be cracked.Yet another reason to limit what you put on Facebook and other social sites...and a good reason to freeze your credit.Perhaps each of us can have a SSN ...
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