The Value Of Post-Collegiate Training
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The first couple of decades of life are usually spent view college as the "finish line" of the academic path. Elementary, Intermediate, then high school, followed by the hallowed finish line of college. The reality is that business is changing so quickly, that you'd better be, as well.
Alteon Is Back
Well, Nortel is pretty much non-existant now and for all you Alteon users that mourned the day they purchased Alteon Web Systems, you can find solace in the fact that Radware is breathing life back into the product. Instead of sticking it to the acquired user base and forcing users onto a different platform, they've actually continued on, developping the Alteon line. If words like Tigon, Cheetah, 180e and 2424 mean anything to you, then it's time to get excited again.
Blast-factor: Subway (Updated)
You know... I like Subway food. I really do. Unfortunately, I'm absolutely appalled at the frequency that Subways (yes, that's plural) are out of things. I don't mean like Dr. Pepper, I mean like at least 25% of the menu items. In this instance, it was far worse. We pass by two subways on the way home; one that's built into a gas station and another that's a stand-alone store in a strip mall. We opted for the latter, as it would likely have a great chance of being well stocked. Here's what we found, instead:
Video Games And Violence
To lay down the blanket statement that video games are inherently evil would be ridiculous, but in the same stroke of the pen, we have to note that those that think that violent video games are without any negative effects are naive. Despite that dose of reality, the EU Parlaiment seems to think otherwise. Let's expand on this...
What's Your Most Critical App?
Outages are no fun and if you think that time equals money, wait until you get a bill from a call center after a major issue. In a world of software-as-a-service, online ordering, and Web 2.0, there's a very definable cost associated with the outage of any service, but let's take a second or two to give props to a foundational application that only gets noticed when it's broken: name resoution.

01/22/10 10:52:06 pm, 