BI on the Mind…

From a student: From: William BoebelSent: Thu 2/9/2006 10:30 PMTo: Russell MicklerSubject: RE: Individual Project – Last Assignment MIS370-0601A-01 Attached is my assignment. Thank you. By the way… In live chat you mentioned business intelligence as a primary part of your company’s business. I was curious what your opinion was on SQL Server 2005 from [...]

Doing More Evil Than Good?

Google, unlike many organizations, are very proud about the moral compus built into their mission: “Do No Evil”. However, the devil appears to be in the details for the $106.03 billion market-cap company. Let’s not kid ourselves: the market perceives this company to be worth half of the total US cost of the Iraq war [...]

What are Rootkits?

A lot of buzz about rootkits recently so I thought I’d join-in on the bandwagon. Sony recently came under controversy for their XCP (Extended Copy Protection) Rootkit (http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1140633,00.html) Defining Rootkits First, the concept of “root” comes from the golden days of UNIX where the “root” was the beginning point of the system’s understanding of file-level [...]

Political Cartooning

Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was going to be an artist before I went into business and technology. I hope not to offend anyone with real talent… Rwww.micklerandassociates.com

National DO NOT CALL Registry… a Hoax?

Interestingly enough, somebody reads my blog! Actually, a very attentive student of mine, one Mr. Padgett (and you know who you are!), striving to keep me accurate and honest, provided a Snopes article concerning this subject: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp It’s apparently very likely that I’ve been played on this – and you shouldn’t be! My thanks to [...]

The Last Telegrams…

Western Union has ended its historical role in issuing telegrams. An interesting milestone in telecommunications history…. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11147506/ Rwww.micklerandassociates.com