PayPal gets into the merchant account business. PayPal effectively enters the merchant account business with Website Payments Pro. Now sites can use PayPal to process credit card transactions without having to send folks to PayPal. This is what a lot of people have been waiting for. Look out merchant account companies.  [Signal vs. Noise]

New GTD/Covey Diagrams for D*I*Y Planners. Users of the D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition will note that there are two new diagrams included that were not part of the original D*I*Y Planner kit. I promised I'd make them available for the classic and A5 versions of the kits, and here they are for your downloading… Continue reading New GTD/Covey Diagrams for D*I*Y Planners

Implementing a Personal Information Architecture. A project I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year is implementing a personal information architecture. This has included creating a better-organized professional archive, but has gone well beyond that to include all the Stuff I deal with on a daily basis. I am using a very specific… Continue reading Implementing a Personal Information Architecture

15,000 page views per day 26 steps to 15k a Day offers 26 tips and promises the following: Do those 26 things, and I guarantee you that in one years time you will call your site a success. It will be drawing between 500 and 2000 referrals a day from search engines. If you build… Continue reading 15,000 page views per day

Where should WSUS be installed?. From the newsgroup comes the question “Where should WSUS, the patch tool be installed?” And it's perfectally fine and supported “on” the SBS 2003 server. While it “can” be on a member server, it can't be on the desktop like my Shavlik HfnetchPro is. [By the way … I've lost… Continue reading Where should WSUS be installed?

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June 15, 2005. Recruiting To Gretchen: recruiting successfully isn't only up to recruiters. The best recruiting department in the world can't make people want to work at a company that's moribund, that can't figure out how to ship a compelling upgrade to their flagship OS, or update their flagship database server more than once every… Continue reading June 15, 2005

Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide. Today Microsoft released a special guide that helps in planning strategies to run services securely under the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP operating systems. It addresses the common problem of Windows services that are set to run with the highest possible privileges, which an attacker could… Continue reading Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide

Congress Must Deal With ID Theft. A series of Senate hearings this week examines the growing problem of identity theft. Here's what should be done to stop the scourge. [Wired News]