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Sensitive Compartmented Information (and your money)
For those with military experience out there, you may be familiar with SCI. Actually, you probably can neither confirm nor deny your SCI or non-SCI status. Regardless, for those not in the know, SCI is the step above top secret. You’ve heard the old saying, “It is on a need to know basis, and you [...]
Read moreWho knew monkeys could be cool
As I mentioned in my last post, all of my email subscribers (thanks Mom) will be treated to a new, and way better, email version of this site. Previously, we were using Feedburner to deliver email, but we moved to MailChimp last week for this blog as well as any jobs we do for our clients. I’ve [...]
Read moreDon't get filtered out
I mentioned a few posts back about a company called OpenDNS that provides a recursive DNS service. That’s a fancy way of saying that they are the phone book for the internet and translate IP addresses into people-friendly domains like cuna.org. Every computer that you get on points to a DNS server, whether is is [...]
Read moreDon't be so serious
In my recent quest to clean up the website and try to squeak out some performance gains, I have been looking at different CDN (Content Delivery Network) providers to host all of my static files, like images. Rackspace has a service they call Cloud Files that enables you to save files to the proverbial “cloud” [...]
Read moreWindows unsafe for online banking
Take a look for yourself here.
What a load of crap. That’s like saying people die wearing seat belts, thus it must be the seat belt’s fault so you shouldn’t wear your seat belt. The reason there are so many viruses and malware for Windows is because it is such a big “prize” for hackers. MS [...]
Cinch Online Banking Design Contest
Our design contest at Crowdspring is over! We had over 200 entires and have narrowed it down to a few that we like. I now have even more respect for designers. Design by committee, or rather approval by committee, is tough!
Pick your favorite three!
Put on your tin foil hats
I think that John Anderton and Winston Smith must have visited me in a dream a few months back because I’ve been brewing up an idea that could revolutionize member service or scare the bejesus out of any Libertarian. Half Minority Report, half Nineteen Eighty-Four; I call it CUcard.
CUcard utilizes existing RFID technology that has [...]
Don't get lost in error messages
Problems are bound to happen with any software application or website. Count it. Hopefully the vendor of said software or your internal staff has the mechanisms in place to catch any and all errors that may occur, log them, and notify the appropriate people to take action. Occasionally, system maintenance of some variety will also take down a system [...]
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