With the holiday season so close, I wanted to share this site with you in case you are looking for Santa to bring you a laptop!

http://www.laptopcodes.com/

Haven’t tried it myself, but there are coupon codes for the various laptop manufacturers!

Happy shopping!

I’m really supposed to be doing something else right now, but I couldn’t let this post wait.

At first, I thought there was a mistake due to an article I caught on CNET which said, “WSJ calls Microsoft antivirus tool ’spyware’.“ Because I thought the Wall Street Journal knew what I’ve been saying all this time!

Microsoft NEVER does anything with the users best interest in mind. There has to be some kind of spying capacity in this new thing.

But alas, the article actually refers to a graphic that was presented on the WSJ front page and of course, trying to read the freaking article on WSJ (which is a garbage piece of supposed financial journalism anyway) is impossible since they want you to subscribe to their overpriced pro Republican conservative call it a newspaper.

I actually had a Google alert waiting for me in my gmail inbox which gave me the scoop.

In a Press Release titled: Microsoft Announces Plans for No-Cost Consumer Security Offering the release states that Microsoft is ending the sales of OneCare. (Should’ve made bets on that one! DARN!)

But it also announced that since Microsoft has such an award winning malware engine (first, I never heard of any of the companies giving the awards, and secondly, wtf????), and it’s so concerned about the spread of malware and its users (Yeah, right! I believe that - NOT!), it’s going to offer this great, free solution that suckers - I mean consumers - will just want to use.

My questions to Microsoft:

1. How much is this software going to phone home with user information?

2. What data are you going to be collecting?

3. What’s in it for you (because we all know you don’t do anything without some kind of profit in it for you)?

Am I jaded? Ya think???

Lock down your PC’s folks. I’m sure this piece of fine Microsoft software will come in on a critical  auto-update! After all, does their piece of crap Malicious Software Removal Tool come in as a critical update? (I might be wrong on that one.)

Anyway, just a heads up that you’ll probably be marketed to by the brilliant minds at Microsoft to download this new piece of junk, or it will be downloaded for you.  Either way, beware of geeks bearing gifts - especially if the geeks are named Microsoft!

My GOD, I can’t learn Ubuntu soon enough!

UPDATED ADDENDUM: I just found this post from a CNET guru who claims that this is supposed to create a problem for major vendors like Symantec, Trend Micro and the like.  Sorry dude, but I have to disagree with you. Anyone with an ounce of brains in their head will never trust Microsoft with their security!

First of all, the malware creators will find a way around it, just as they have every stinking piece of M$ unsecure software.

Secondly, Microsoft has proven to the world of users that they cannot be trusted. Even if they were the next best thing since sliced bread in the Antivirus market, our recent experience with Vista alone and the lies we’ve been told about it is enough to make me vomit - let alone not trust them.

Lastly, how can anyone expect to trust Microsoft with anything security when they’ve proven they don’t know squat about it! LOOK AT THEIR SOFTWARE DUDE! IT’S NOT SECURE!

If you can’t make a secure piece of software to save your soul, why would anyone believe they know a damn thing about security???? Get serious!

Give me a solid, secure, piece of your software, and then maybe, just maybe I’ll reconsider. Until then, forget about it.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve noticed my feed subscribers on the right side go up and down, then up and then down again.

All the while, I couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on!

Well, it’s official. All of my feeds and all our client feeds have been moved to the Google Feed interface. Google purchased feedburner quite some time ago and it was only a matter of time.

Supposedly, if you subscribe to us, you shouldn’t have to change anything. It is supposed to automatically update your feed reader (through a redirect).

This particular blog is officially updated. Now, on to updating the many, many clients we have! A webmaster’s work is never done!

If you have problems understanding the new feeds and what needs to be changed, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.

More interesting stuff to come soon……