Inexperienced users and even some experienced users have troubles identifying fake emails from legit ones. It is sometimes hard to tell if the email that just arrived in your mail inbox came from a legit company like eBay, Amazon or Citibank or if it is just another phishing attempt. There are some ...

Ron Russell mentioned a story in the comments that I saw on Drudge earlier today just before I left for my appointment. Let me vent for one second before I go on...WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?! This headline at Drudge made my heart race: Wikipedia Scrubs Obama Page Clean of Critical Entries . My abso...

With the stock market gyrating wilder than a dashboard hula doll, you probably want an investment that won't depress you when you open the paper. Certificates of Deposit or "CDs," an insured savings account with a guaranteed interest rate may sound like the antidote, but even they are not without ri...

I've been pretty busy over the past week, so I didn't have much time to come here to vent, but believe me I've been plenty aggravated. One thing that caused me particular concern was the news that Obama was repealing the Bush "conscience rule" for health care workers. This is most definitely a dire...

I know, getting training budget is hard at the moment, but you really want to make yourself as employable as possible. Help is at hand (in fact, it’s only a mouse click away). There are, of course, a whole bunch of Virtual Labs you can do (for developers and for infrastructure people). There’s a...

Early morning yoga at Bondi Beach via tarotastic @ flickr. If you've ever done a kick-ass Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga class, you already know that yoga is not necessarily a low-key, low-effort workout. And while it doesn't require specialized work-out gear, you do need comfortable tops and pants that neit...

Share this post : So it seems that for Bill, “voting� = begging the team at our last meeting, “Let me say it, me, me, me!� (as if Bill would ever need to be asked to say something controversial :-)) But I guess it’s good that he said it the way he did, because we’ve had a lot of comments...

You worked hard to get your certification - MCDBA on SQL 2000.  Then Microsoft came out with SQL 2005 and you need to earn the requisite MCTS and MCITP certifications.  But between work and your personal life (wait - who allowed you one of those?).  Now here is the next problem - now SQL 2008 has...

Image via CrunchBase Recently I posted on Mr Wilson’s Blog about adding paid streams to  Twitter !  Another visitor and excellent writer agreed with me !  First and foremost during my working career I made money in sales promotion by selling ideas and I gave a way a lot of them to my friend...

Image via CrunchBase Finally some one has discussed Twitter as more than a toy ! I don’t read newspapers any more and only watch a few things on Pb-Yes ! I do download Ritmo Latino from NRP so if I get a tweet that interest’s me !  It is of value-I am not a teche but have gotten some in...