Lately I was pretty unsatisfied with my webhost‘s performance and invested some time in order to find a new one. One that is closer and has therefore a better server response time. Since I’m living in Austria one of the first places to consult was the Top 10 list of German providers. After checking all their feature lists which involved quite some time since I wanted SSH-access and complete control over name services I decided to go with Webhostone, situated in beautifuk Bad Säckingen.

Although the Banys Orientals is a nice hotel located in the Barri Gothic their methods of creating revenues are disgusting. They charged my [tag-tec]Visa[/tag-tec] card ‘though I never stayed there. After a considerable amout of emails back and forth the agreed to return the money still they never wired it – and now refuse to even anwser emails.

After some time and lots of efforts by the authors and – I dare to claim that – the editors the third BlogTalks book will hit the (virtual) shelves in a month or even faster.

I can tell you all those self-publishing services are time bandits. First it took me two months to figure out that Booksurge (an Amazon company) is supposedly run by inverse mechanical turks.

Following this wise statement.

For Success in the Enterprise, Think Platform:”Software architecture is an unintended consequence of social architecture,” Smith says. “If you have a dysfunctional organization, and you build software to align with it, you’re going to get dysfunctional software. We need to go in with our eyes open and understand. This may exacerbate issues.