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Meme: Alternate Careers

MickC @ September 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet

How many of these sound like me?
1. Computer Support Person
2. Database Developer
3. Librarian
4. Furniture Finisher
5. Business Systems Analyst
6. Massage Therapist
7. Web Developer
8. Neurologist
9. Corporate / Commercial Lawyer
10. Zoologist

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TD AMERITRADE: Hacker X Did It!

MickC @ September 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet

In a press release today, the TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation asserted the venerable “Hacker X” defense:
OMAHA, Neb.–BUSINESS WIRE–TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation has discovered and eliminated unauthorized code from its systems that allowed access to an internal database. The discovery was made as the result of an internal investigation of stock-related SPAM.
The Company commissioned forensic data [...]

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Web Marketing 101: Will the Real Spam Please Stand Up? — Please?

MickC @ September 13, 2007 # 2 Comments

In this post, we will review: Web Marketing 101: Will the Real Spam Please Stand Up?

Now, I’m an email delivery professional. That is, I work with email all day, every day, usually in the capacity of dealing with the fallout of people who think that they know what they’re doing. So, I run [...]

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When Is a Litmus Test Not a Litmus Test?

MickC @ September 13, 2007 # One Comment

Apparently when Bill Richardson is trying to find a Supreme Court nominee. According to theDallas Morning News, Richardson “said he would ask potential nominees whether they believed that privacy, which was a basis for the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion, is settled law.”
And then I’m going to go one step further. [...]

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