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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business
The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business: Low-Cost/High Return Tools and Techniques That Really Work by Tom Antion
This is the best small business marketing book I've ever read, and I've read quite a few. I've never read a "meatier" book on the practical how-tos of building a web-based marketing machine for your small business. If you're looking for a "bible" on how the web can grow your small business there is no better book on the market right now than Tom Antion's. Go buy it. You won't be sorry. [More...]
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Holy Shit! Transparent Aluminium Really Exists
I remember transparent aluminum from the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home where Scotty talked to a Mac mouse and transparent aluminum helped them save the whales, and thereby the world. Most science fiction has some basis in reality, I guess I just figured it would take a little longer. Time flies [via BoingBoing]
Transparent armor
David Pescovitz: The US Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is testing a new kind of transparent armor, clear aluminum aluminum oxynitride, that can stop hardcore .30 and .50 caliber armor-piercing bullets. From a press release:ALONtm is a ceramic compound with a high compressive strength and durability. When polished, it is the premier transparent armor for use in armored vehicles, said. 1st Lt. Joseph La Monica, transparent armor sub-direction lead
"The substance itself is light years ahead of glass," he said, adding that it offers "higher performance and lighter weight."
Traditional transparent armor is thick layers of bonded glass. The new armor combines the transparent ALONtm piece as a strike plate, a middle section of glass and a polymer backing. Each layer is visibly thinner than the traditional layers.
ALONtm is virtually scratch resistant, offers substantial impact resistance, and provides better durability and protection against armor piercing threats, at roughly half the weight and half the thickness of traditional glass transparent armor, said the lieutenant.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Feds demand more security for online banking
It's become apparent that US banks are simply not going to act on their own to increase security in online banking. Despite the absurdity of using nothing more than a 7-character pasword to protect a person's entire asset base, that's all BankofAmerica has in place. Even though I've written several letters to them complaining about the dangerous lack of security I've never gotten so much as a "how do you do" in response. It's about time regulators actually did something for us instead of to us. [via Freedom News Daily]HoustonChronicle.com - Feds demand more security for online banking
Associated Press BOSTON Federal regulators will require banks to strengthen security for Internet customers through authentication that goes beyond mere user names and passwords, which have become too easy for criminals to exploit.
Bank Web sites are expected to adopt some form of "two-factor" authentication by the end of 2006, regulators with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council said in a letter to banks last week.
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I-Worm/Mytob Clogging the E-mail System
I-Worm/Mytob is running rampant today. I've gotten about 100 infected e-mails from customers, even my travel agent. Thankfully I keep my AVG Anti-virus package and firewalls updated. This is such a hassle, and windoze is so crappy. When am I going to get a Mac?
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