Daily Entries

I’m waiting for someone who actually speaks French to tell me if it’s ‘Viva le France’, or ‘Vive le France’, or something else. I don’t speak French at all, so you’ll have to forgive me. Today, on the way home, I braved the Arc de Triomphe as two others suggested. Not intentionally mind you, the…

I hope this post makes sense to someone, but if not, you’re going to have to forgive me. I woke up at 7am Sunday EST, hopped on a plane around 5:40pm EST, arrived in Paris at 6:00am (their time) and then went to work. I’m exhausted. I haven’t gone this many hours without sleep in…

Well, it looks like I’m going to be in Paris, France for business next week. On the off chance that any of my readers are in the area, and want to get together for a drink or something, let me know.

Chris Vance asks: “Can you remind viewers what technologies you’re looking to hire for? While I’m happily employed, I live in the area and know lots of software engineers (all employed, though, to my knowledge).” Certainly, although that’s probably not quite the question you should be asking. In the broader sense, I’m not looking for…

I’m often amazed at the lengths that companies will go to in order to ‘secure’ their networks and computer systems from tampering. I’m also amazed at how prevalent security holes are in their systems on a regular basis. I do a fair amount of traveling throughout the Northeast doing security consulting for Fortune 1000 companies.…

Several weeks ago, I placed a job listing on jobs.joelonsoftware.com for a developer to add to my company. The website as most of you probably know is a subdomain of the popular Joel On Software website. While I wasn’t too keen on spending $350 for a chance at finding someone, Fog Creek did offer a…

Last week I placed an order with ThinkGeek.com for a couple of surge protectors for my office and a two-in-one, red and green laser pointer for when I’m giving presentations. Yesterday I received my order. Today, I received an email saying that it had shipped and would be arriving shortly. Before you ask, yes I…

Since Friday when I installed my new colocation server, I’ve been experiencing routing problems. Basically, everyone could get to my server except for me. Technically, if I were to VPN from my home office into my office in Worcester, I could see my server without a problem, but some routing broadcasts at my ISP were…

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