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First and foremost if you do not want to read this and would rather see the pictures:

https://picasaweb.google.com/115400923105264895889/CozumelIronmanTripAndRace2011

We have had trouble with our 800 number ever since the weather back east last week.  It comes up and goes down later that day.  We have decided to use this opportunity to leave it off.  We simply are not big enough to need it anyway and any savings we have is passed to the customer.   As always email is the best way to dialog, as we store for our records.  The local number is listed below (along with newer extension).   Thanks ... Read More >

We have had our phone system upgraded and we all have new extensions.  Please dial zero for more information.

Important news from Matrixwebs.com regarding your service contract and new services.

Software Updates

Distribusuite: A new beta version has published today.  Customers that are using the product will be updated shortly.  Substantial work has been done in the order entry area.

FileItSuite:  Is in the process of receiving style updates.  These updates will bring the look in line with the newer packages.

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Well this was my first trip to Clearwater for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships.  I got a spot way back in May at Hawaii (Honu).

It's been a long year; I totaled up my events for the year:

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 >

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.

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.

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.

We have started making videos on our software products.  This will make training much faster for us and it will give the clients the ability to review their training at a later date.  Looking forward to seeing more.  Here is a demo:

http://help.matrixlegalsuite.com/Home.ashx