This little 12 minute video is worth the time if you are interested in learning about working for the Federal Government. Great benefits, strong pay, promotion opportunities, and holidays off! Work for NASA, Social Security, the Federal Reserve, Homeland Security, and many other branches of the government. Preferential hiring for ex-military and the disabled. Take…
Technology is great. Except when its not. Ran into some issues with an expired card and the site not paid for. This is now resolved and we return to our scheduled program. Thanks for your patience.
Russian hackers cracked roughly 420,000 websites and stole approximately 1.2 BILLION user names and passwords according to a report published on Tuesday, August 5, 2014. The story, broken by the New York Times, is based on findings by a Milwaukee-based security company: Hold Security. This latest break-in by hackers comes after a major point-of-sale theft…
Who the heck is Robert Scoble and why should I care you ask? Scoble is someone you should know as a budding entrepreneur… Here is a brief biography of Scoble from Wikipedia: Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which…
I am a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. My program – Project Management – will complete in Spring, 2015. Over several years of classes, I’ve had wonderful opportunities to interact with people from all over the world. Our program has students from distant locations including South Korea, Afghanistan, the Virgin Islands, and…
Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, the world’s largest eBook distributor, recently presented Smashwords annual survey on eBook sales at the RT Booklovers convention in New Orleans. In this third annual survey, Coker presented valuable information about eBook trends and sales. The data included: over $25 million in customer purchases aggregated across Smashwords retailers including Apple…
You read the title correctly: 55 Business Ideas for under $5000 start up cost. This article, posted on Entrepreneur.com details ideas from bicycle repair to accounting and music instruction. None are especially original, but this list is a good place to start. You may have experience or education in a particular field and want to…
A business idea – an eBook with downloadable images. Other than blogging, I like to take photographs and write everything under the sun. I got this business idea – create a book of images on Amazon with links to my pictures on flickr.com and let people download the images for personal use?! I’d take off…
The United States and United Kingdom governments warned users not to use the Internet Explorer browser – any version – until Microsoft corrects a security flaw. According to the online magazine, theregister.com. “Microsoft has warned of a new security flaw in all versions of its Internet Explorer web browser for Windows PCs. Vulnerability CVE-2014-1776,…
My last post was about malware issues. Continuing on the security theme, this information is courtesy of Fred, a senior project manager friend of mine. He found an article on create strong passwords in IEEE magazine. IEEE is a non-profit professional association dedicated to the advancement of technology. Best-practice security and privacy recommendations from the…