You know when someone really upsets you (this sounds like Andy Rooney) that you feel like lashing out against them? But when you do lash out in anger you sometimes burn a bridge that cannot be fixed.
That happened to me over the weekend.
Rather than give specific details someone said something that made it look like I was being betrayed by what I thought was a friend.
When I actually confronted him I had some time to cool down and give him the benefit of the doubt. It turned...

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We had a hugely successful show at the Portland Convention center. It was the annual Innotech Show and this was our first year.
We recorded our show onsite and did some great interviews. To hear the show we recorded just go to alltechradio.com and click on the latest show to listen online.
We had so many people who wanted to be on the show we are going to have to split it into two weeks.
We also did an IBM demo of the Blade Center S Class and the ISCSI storage device.
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I just completed another server installation for Blackberry Enterprise on one of our client's servers.
I am convinced it s a status thing like Apple, and not the best thing out there.
Windows Mobile is free, and does everything that Blackberry does, but without the cost or other issues.

What other issues are there?
1. Its not as secure. You have to lower the security of the server to get it to send emails. Although Microsoft admittedly was the one who forced this....

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No one will admit it, but on my desk this week someone had placed a magazine article on my desk. It was for a website called stumbleupon.com.
I had heard of this site for several months but have ignored it as one of the many overblown websites that's more hype than help.

Today I finished my list of customer tasks early and had the show ready to be recorded, so I came across the article one more time. I started to throw it out but was distracted every time I picked it up and...

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We have been seeing a ton of spam from Amsterdam for the past few months. We have systematically blocked most of Asia, Africa, South America, and others from being able to email us. We've only had a couple of complaints from customers we are hosting SPAM filtering for.

For those companies we just opened up an exception.

What really surprised us though was Amsterdam sending us SPAM and now NDR (Non Delivery Report) attacks.

These are emails that are spoofed...

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