As another ISP suffers another distributed denial of service attack, you have to ask yourself why a company would rush off all guns blazing into the cloud.
With the cost of acquiring the services of thousands of drones ever decreasing, it’s getting cheaper to disrupt your competitors during key times such as new product launches. For example, it wouldn’t be unfeasible to ‘organise’ a distributed denial of service attack that takes out your competitors website and mail servers for several days. Coupled with a new product version release of your own could constitute a severe blow to your competitors bottom line and credibility. Read the rest of this entry
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So I was watching my twitter stream tick on over…
Tick, tick, tick….
Out of the corner of my eye I catch these two gems.
One bribing his kids with cookies and ice cream if they’ll just flush the toilet (we’ve all been there right)?
The other… Stamping out polio.. Read the rest of this entry
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Many years ago I decided that I would devote as much spare time as I could to charity. This was bought about in no small part by a vicious disease that ravaged my peripheral nervous system for 11 years. I was completely blown away by the support I received during my dark times (thank you Mary – your selfless dedication to the GBS Association is inspiring).
As I began to recuperate and regain strength, I thought a pushbike would help to build some muscle mass back into my legs. Having spent most of my youth on pushies, the decision was a simple one: I’d get a mountain bike for starters and potter around town rebuilding my broken body.
It took all of three months before a phone call would change things dramatically… “Wanna come and ride nasho”? The invitation to ride the National Park was met with some initial trepidation. Would I be strong enough to keep up? Would I be a burden on the group? Would my legs blow up in the middle of the National Park and result in my mates having to carry me out? I pondered these questions as I drove to the National Park, laden with my mountain bike on the back of the car (of course I would never consider not going). Read the rest of this entry
Dear Candy.. Not all your 12,643 Facebook friends really care that you top scored in Bedazzler, or that your farmville farm is thriving, in fact, a very small number of your perceived ‘followers’ couldn’t really give a shit about you at all.
Anthropological Studies have shown that it’s difficult to maintain stable social relationships with groups larger than 150 people. That limit being a direct function of neocortex size, apparently, our brains can’t conceptualise stable inter-personal relationships with large groups of people.
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I recently presented to the Southwest Networking Group, my presentation outlined basic security techniques we can all use to pretect our digital identities.
Here’s a link to the presentation.
Powerpoint presentation on computer security
I recently presented to the Southwest Networking Group, my presentation outlined several productivity tools available that could streamline your working day.
Here’s a link to the presentation.
Powerpoint presentation on productivity
Productivity tool Links:
www.rememberthemilk.com
www.evernote.com
www.livescribe.com
connect.microsoft.com/site94
www.dimdim.com
www.rescuetime.com
www.lifehacker.com
www.gtdagenda.com
A client of mine recently engaged a marketing company to develop a campaign for a new product launch, the eventual outcome of the campaign was not quite what my client had bargained for.
In order to protect the innocent, I can’t name my unsuspecting client, nor will I name the marketing company who duped them into spending a large sum of money on an ineffective marketing campaign. Read the rest of this entry
The inevitable release of Tablet PC’s may spell the demise of eBook readers such as the Kindle, purely for their ability to deliver rich multimedia content and interactivity beyond simply bookmarking pages. Content providers on the other hand are welcoming in a new age of rich multimedia delivery made possible by Tablet PC’s. Read the rest of this entry
Salivating for that iPad? I bet.. Check out what else is due to ship this year. Read the rest of this entry