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Have a love for food and fashion? If so, check out one of our newest BlogSuite customers' personal blog, Dominique Rooney.

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In the weeks leading up to the big day we also ran the Hawaii 70.3 Ironman.  I finished with a personal record there of 5:10, the run was brutal there.  I used that as a prep race to test nutrition.  I also made some effort to gain weight leading up to the race.  I went from 148 to 153.  In my past races I lost too much weight during the races.     We drove our RV to the Northern Idaho with my mom and Earl.  My Aunt and uncle met us there later in ... Read More >

Need help deciding how to layout your website? No problem! Web Design Practices provides you with data statistics regarding the most commonly used layouts and design elements for websites.

An excerpt from Web Design Practices:

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Here is a good post from Smashing Magazine that covers almost all the basic jargon you should know when getting into the web design/development industry or maybe even if you just plan on launching a new website. It's always good to know the basics...

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So after yesterday morning's shocking Google outage, there is now much speculation of what exactly caused the issue. There have been reports of DDoS attacks, viruses/worms, ISP glitches, and the list goes on as reported on many Twitter posts.

What exactly was down? Well everything Google really. Google search, Gmail, Maps, etc. What most users don't realize though is how much other third party websites, applications and services rely on Google's services to work. So you guessed it, if they go down, those services utilizing their technology will also mostly like have features disabled. Now you can begin to imagine the enormous effect this caused on many business operations. Luckily though, the situation did not last an entire day.

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Well today is my birthday.  I'm turning 40.  Hard to believe, the number just sounds so old.  But I feel the best I ever have.  This morning (as part of someone's tradition) I decided to swim 4000 meters (40 x 100), at lunch I ran 4 miles all sub 7:20.  After work I rode 40 miles.  Of course I ate 4000 calories during the day.

I do need to thank my staff for surprising me with a little party at 1 pm.  The pizza and cupcakes were great. 

One other note I have is more of a complaint on our current society.  What is going on with our news media?  Isn't it enough that they blow the H1N1 virus out of hand? Now we have the "Fremont Sniper" shooting windows in cars.  Well it was a pellet gun.  You just had to watch the entire time to get the whole story.  They sure were playing up the way it was mentioned as well.  I honestly believe this is what caused gas prices to go up and down last year and is somewhat responsible for our financial crisis.

Maybe it's time to ignore them.

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As much as I love the donut Fridays, I'm not so sure the donuts love us. SInce being pregnant I feel like every donut I eat is going to come after me with a vengeance and plant itself directly on my stomach or thigh. The problem is that I only care after I've already eaten it despite knowing that I am going to feel this way hehe. 

Even though I complain about it, I still don't think I'm gonna discontinue my consumption or stop buying them on Fridays. I guess I will just have to live with it. Sorry team for subjecting you all to these delicious temptations. Yes, it's true...I am the one to blame.

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If you think you're getting a lot of spam these days, well, that's because you are. In Microsoft's latest biannual report on the state of computer security, the company says that in the second half of 2008, a full 97.3 percent of email traffic was unwanted spam (or malicious email like phishing attacks and outright viruses). Surprisingly though, that's down a bit from the first half of last year, when total spam volume reached a whopping 98.4 percent of all email sent.

The latest report (which covers security through the end of 2008, so Conficker isn't part of the package) is available for download here. (Be warned: The full report is 184 pages long. Consider checking out the smaller highlight report instead.)

The good news: Spam filters are getting better than ever. Microsoft's filter system for Exchange now scrubs out 39 out of every 40 emails sent. Spam also saw that slight decline thanks to the shut down last year of the ISP McColo, a major haven for spammers who suddenly had to go shopping elsewhere.

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While most of the country is focussed on going green at home we are going to take a step forward and consider going green at the other place that most of us spend a large chunk of our time...at work.

1) Cut the lights...

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We have added an additional 12TB storage array to our Data Center.  This compliments our Blade servers and existing Equalogic storage array.  We added this to cover space used by our new Suite series of products (http://www.matrixsuites.com).  Some customers already have 30 GB of data stored here.  The storage arrays automatically Snap Shot the data each night, weekly, and monthly.  In addition our development servers Snapshot each hour.  This gives us the abilty to rollback very easy.

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