All Things Cahill

This is just dumb.  David Litchfield of  has determined there are approximately 500,000 exposed database servers on the Internet, without Firewall protection (via computerworld.com).  He’s not talking about the little MySql databases we use for web content, we’re talking about the big MS SQL and Oracle DBs that corporations use to hold onto stuff like your credit card info, order history, medical data, etc. With no firewall, databases are exposed to hackers, putting corporate data at risk. Litchfield said that,…

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As I noted a while back, SoftScan is seeing that over 90% of the email traffic they get is spam. That’s about right, looking at what I get in my email, and apparently we’re not the only ones – Maureen Rogers posts on spam today as well. Meanwhile, I noticed yesteday that my Akismet Spam Filter on this blog has killed over 24,000 spam comments. That’s beside the 20-30 a week I have to manually kill myself, and the uncounted…

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I guess the start of the crab season made it a tough time for the Northwestern boys to respond to questions on the “Northwestern Brand King Crab” that’s been showing up at Walmart. I’ve already posted twice on this issue, and this will be the last time, as my initial point still stands: it’s brilliant marketing to use reality TV to create a brand awareness where none existed before. As to the fact that the King Crab being sold under…

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While we may hang the “Small Business” moniker on what we do, the truth is, there should be nothing small about it, at least from the point of perception. I know a company that consists of the owner, a part time sales person (who works remotely) and an occassional contractor. If you were to call them, you’d get a standard voice mail system offering to direct you to “your parties extension” or offering an employee list by department or last…

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I guess I started a poo storm… Last week I posted about what a great move it was for Trident Seafoods to start selling what I thought was Alaskan King Crab under the FV Northwestern brand at Walmart, which makes use of all the great advertising they get out of the Discovery Channel show “The Deadliest Catch.” The post caught fire on the forums for the Bering Straits Bad Boys, Deadliest Forums (free registration required – thread is closed) and…

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Dare Obasanjo and Dave Winer have (separately) been thinking about the new SocialAds in Facebook which I roundly dissmissed last week on this blog.  From Dare’s post (which cites Dave Winer as well) I’ve been pondering the implications of Facebook’s SocialAds announcement and it has created some interesting lines of thought. The moment the pin dropped was when Dave Winer linked to one of his old posts that contains the following money quote that’s when the whole idea of advertising…

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Never Forget… The Dropkick Murphy’s performing Green Fields of France by Eric Bogle. Lyrics here. Video by Mistreena For a good history of WWI, I recommend John Keegan.

For those of you who haven’t heard, Navisite bought Albanza, one of the largest web hosts in the country, in August. They announced in October they would move the majority of their servers to a new hosting facility in Andover, Ma, from the existing Albanza location in Baltimore. After several emails outlining their plans, and several delays, they started the move last Friday, with a stated goal of being 100% complete by Sunday. From Eweek: The next step will be…

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Outstanding Jazz/Spoken Word/Funk Fusion – from Mystic Hots Springs. Dig Deeper Archive.org Live Concert Downloads Jambase Page Band Website

Passion: it is most often the difference between the mediocre and the sublime, the merely acceptable and the exciting, between trudging your way down a rock strewn path and dancing barefoot through the wildflowers. It’s also the one thing so often missing in web design. There’s too much “that’s good enough” and too little “is it great enough?” The web is the place where we can strive for greatness and make it stick. Look at your site and try to…

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