Zen 2.0

So I have been doing quite a bit of international traveling, both business and personal. I am slowly finding out there is evil in credit card companies. For example, I have been using a Citi card for most of the charges. Every time the clerk swipes my card, 3% is added to the purchase amount. [...]

A friend pointed me to this article on How to Fund a Startup by Paul Grahm. Very good summary of the different funding options.

Richard Stiennon recently wrote an article on Evaluating Security Startups. In this article, Richard listed six rules in which he uses to evaluate products from security startups. Even though the article’s got some points, I can’t say I agree with everything he says. As an example, in the article, Richard said, “Security is all about [...]

This is funny. Someone named “Fish” translated an article I wrote a while back on What to do before an IOS disaster strikes into Chinese. Fish, assuming he did the translation, did a pretty good job of translating the whole article. Can’t say how legal it is since he most likely does not have permission [...]

So as I was going back through this month’s news, it seemed that one of the biggest news is that Google is bidding to provide free wi-fi service to the city of San Francisco. The proposal is to blanket 49 square miles with up to 30 access points per square mile and will server over [...]

Oh my gawd, 3 posts in 1 day and no real content…wassup with that. I promise, when I get a chance one of these days, I will start generating some real content… On to official business… Now here is the catch. I can’t tell you to vote as according to the rules, no agent, employee, [...]

My company, LogLogic, is looking to fill a “log analyst” position. We are looking for someone who can – understanding the log formats and transport mechanisms – researching different log formats to identify common categories (to help design the back end) – parsing and normalizing the logs for the necessary information, based on requirements – [...]

Playing with online polling sites, so I created this one: The number of unique accounts I use regularly is Please try it out. It would be interesting to find out.

In March 2005, Forrester published data on US spending by small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and enterprises in 2004. In this report, we extend our analysis to 2005. We are also updating our 2004 data to correct for: 1) a slight overstatement of IT spending by enterprises and by professional services firms of all sizes, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE), the leading provider of ultra-scalable, realtime business and service assurance software, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire GuardedNet Inc., a privately-held software company based in Atlanta, Georgia, for $16.2 million in cash. GuardedNet is a SIM player and has raised a total of [...]