Jul 27

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day!

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Today is National System Administrator Appreciation Day. Everyone who has a Systems Administrator or just someone who handles most of your IT should be recognized. Take your local man/woman out for a drink and show them how much you appreciate them! I know Cory and I will be milking it today.

Jul 26

BarCampOrlando Video

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BarCampOrlando is coming in a couple of months. Myself and some of the guys from NFi will be attending. The BarCamp guys have released an informational video and button to promote the event.

Get the code to post yourself and help spread the word:

Apr 26

MySQL Planning to Go Public

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MySQL has reached the $50 million revenue mark and is gearing up towards an IPO. This could prove to be an interesting time for MySQL and the open source database world for web 2.0. I am interested in what lay ahead, how MySQL could be affected and whether it may be a good investment opportunity ;).

Read more from my post at the NFi Studios Blog.

Jan 19

A Sad Day For Online Poker

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The U.S. government has showed its arrogance again. The FBI Has Arrested Former NETELLER Executives. This is purely an intimidation move in my eyes with no real justification. These two guys don’t even run the company anymore; they founded it. They were snagged on flight layovers in the U.S. and charged with money laundering? I say this has no justification for the following reasons:

  1. NETELLER is not a “Gambling” company. If people choose to use it to transfer funds in that way it should be the users responsibility (yes I have been one of those users)
  2. These guys are merely shareholders now. They both have stepped down as directors of the company. Are we going to start holding all shareholders liable for every public company?
  3. The company is not even a U.S. company. We cannot govern them.

Yes I know the U.S. passed a recent law prohibiting financial institutions from transferring money to/from online gambling sites. I think the government is stretching the limits of this law however. They got what they were most likely looking for however. NETELLER has since forbid U.S. customers from using their service to transfer funds to and from gambling sites. Looks like I will have to find another way to play poker online.