Security is Happiness

No seriously, I attended an Internet Security Systems demo/seminar this morning and they gave away t-shirts with big smiley faces and “Security is Happiness” printed under them. They’re pretty silly looking, I’ll try and webcam it tonight so you can see what I’m talking about. The seminar was decent, it’s always humorous when you setup…

Communication breakdown day at work…

A couple of mass-media articles about blogging today. One from Time Magazine about Blogger and one from the BBC about blogs and the Bloggie awards. The BBC also reported over the weekend about A security risk in Morpheus that could leave everything on your hard drive accessible to other file sharers. Why does this not…

Hopefully the internet connection will stay afloat

Hopefully the internet connection will stay afloat here long enough for me to post. It’s been sort of iffy all afternoon. Naturally, I spent the morning doing all the database stuff, saving the afternoon for some internet research and getting virus updates and “online” stuff. Isn’t that always the way? Hopefully it’ll stay afloat while…

A little explanation

A little explanation today, as background to the bizarre fax we got this morning. We don’t have a traditional ISP, we have a company that we are partnered with, who provided a consultant about 6 years ago to put together our computer network. (Before I worked here). We’ve simply thrown up a fractional T1 between…