ScribeFire Making Money – Not Found

This was just funny – I’ve been using a cool Firefox extension (ScribeFire) to blog. One of the cool things about it is that you can pull up the blog window in your browser and click through to pages. Plus the editor tool works great. Anyway, they just updated the extension. On first launch you get redirected to www.scribefire.com/make_money which …

Interesting Interviews

In doing some research for a couple of web projects, I came across How to Nail an Interview – with 22 tips for getting hired. Since I’ve been on the interviewer side of things and and can relate to some of these, I thought I’d share the site with you. How To Nail An Interview (Tip 11)

Mac Zombies? Uh oh

Well I’ve always maintained that Mac’s were safer that Windows boxes – not just because Apple had minor market share, but OSX was based on a BSD (Unix) variant and thus had security in the core design. However, this news should rattle a few of the Mac users. Researchers have found signs of a Mac botnet that apparently can get …

Conficker – What you should really know

Last week was fun in the IT (information technology) world. Not because of any real damage by conficker – but because of the absolute media over-hype of something they don’t have a clue about. I had a couple of customers call me – and the conversations were short: “Rex, do we need to worry?” – “No Bob you don’t.” – …