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I am picky.  I like substance rather than sensationalistic drivel. I get irritated by bad prose.  I’ve been known to correct people’s grammar.  And I actually spell out “you” and “our” when I text.  As thus, I rarely find a blog post I’m willing to pass on.  (Oh, the foreshadowing!) голова болит секс

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Of course, now I’m going to tell you that I did find a blog post worth passing on.  It’s from Matt, over at wordpress.org, on how to keep wordpress secure.  But don’t just stay on the first paragraph.  This is more about wordpress.  If you’ve ever been online, if you are now online, or if you intend to be online ever, you owe it to yourself to read that, and take it to heart.  This applies to car maintenance as much as it applies to wordpress or to any other online thing you do.  Matt doesn’t sew (I dabble at it), but the premise is ageless:  an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I’ve expounded on this before.  Coincidentally, I just read some examples in a magazine that continue to car analogy.  Tales of a forgotten oil change costing the owner the price tag of a new engine; ignored brake pads that ended up ruining the rotors; ruined transmissions; the list goes on.

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This post brings it down to earth: regular maintenance is a known cost. Budget for it. Lack of regular maintenance (leading to a hacked site, for example) can cost many thousands of dollars.  I was looking at a hacked site just this week:  Over eight hours at emergency rates just to investigate.  The site may require tens of thousands of dollars worth of work to make sure that all vulnerabilities are closed.

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I guess routine maintenance is your “business decision”.  Just call me when you get hacked. I may even be nice and not add the “I told you so” tax.

An early morning water main break by 60 Hudson, NY, NY threatened the telecom hub there.  The building houses electrical gear in its basement, and so far their pumps are able to keep up.  No outages reported so far.

More info here and a neat video here.

Update: crews are expected to dig up the streets over the next few days to fix the main.

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IT for small businesses

It’s that time again!  We are giving another workshop at the DC chapter of SBA/Score.  If you plan on attending, save some dough and sign up now; it’s $10 more at the door.  We will cover the full gamut of IT essentials for small businesses and startups.  I mean all of it: from website design to green business practices.

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Speaking of green, we’ve uploaded our slides this time, rather than print them out (SBA only has single-sided printers).  So check them out and send us questions in advance.  Or comment here.

Here are some thoughts from the last one we did, back cold, cold February.

iPhone

Recently, some of our clients that love their iPhones have been having some difficulties making them sync up with Microsoft Exchange so here is a simple step-by-step to configure their devices.

We provide an excellent Microsoft Exchange Hosting & Wireless Synching service for small businesses. It is a fully enabled Microsoft Exchange Shared Hosting service that allows small business owners to purchase only what they need (per account), avoid the hassles and expense of managing their own Microsoft Exchange server locally.

How to configure your iPhone to work with your Microsoft Exchange account

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OpenID

21 October 2008

As of 1400 EDT, AOL’s openID provider, openid.aol.com, is down.

For better or worse, I use openID.  For worse or better, I use aol.com.  The reason is simple: When I started checking out openID, AOL had an openID provider that gave every AIM account an openID account. (If you have an AIM account your openID URL is http://openid.aol.com/aimusername ).

Things have been peachy.  I have a single way to log in to many places, including all the 37Signals products, many blogs, Wikis, etc.

Except for today.  It seems my openID provider is down, as is presumably every other AOL openid account.  DNS does not resolve.  Which means now I can’t log into any of these sites. 

Well, that’s not entirely true.  I could bypass openID, wait for my non-openID account pasword to get emailed to me, etc.  But the bottom line is I can’t log in.  

This brings up some questions about relying on openID.  Admittedly, I’ve not had an issue with this so far.  However, it may be nice to have some work-around.  For now I’ll wait and see.  More as this develops.

Impact

In pure numbers, this potentially affects the more than 63 million AIM users, assuming they all use openID. If only 10% use this feature, that’s still over 6 million users. The frustrating thing here is that there is no “status” page or other way to find out the current status of the provider.