Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/24/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 21:52:00

Blog posts (169) | Videos (43)
 

SC Diocese Appears to Repudiates Catechism; SC Priest Is ‘Reined In,’ But Right (Update: Full Text of Letter)

BizzyBlog), I noted news that Fr. Newman, a Catholic priest and pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, had informed parishoners who voted for Barack Obama in full knowledge of the Illinois Senator’s aggressively proabortion positions that they “should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:15:55

MY REPLY TO A COMMENT ON: AS CHILD LIES IN COMA, MOM DEMANDS ANSWERS

Sometimes in this blog business you receive a comment that is just so idiotic, that you have to take the time to not only point out their stupidity, ... that the report the mother made against the foster parents involved “just some scratches and a bump.”  My reasoning for this conclusion, is how would they know what was in the report if they were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:14:42

Beige Book’s Midwestern Summary

From the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book (HTML, PDF). Economic activity in the Seventh District declined further in December, ... market conditions weakened. Construction declined, and manufacturing activity moved lower. Credit ... service center activity continued to be robust. Sales were sluggish for Detroit three nameplate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:00:38

iPage Hosting is officially here!

Not long ago I was talking about the ‘come back’ of iPag e and yes, they are now officially here. iPage launched October 1st, 2009 and here’s a quick print screen of their website. What’s about iPage? iPage web services Confession: I thought the new iPage is all about hosting when I first saw their ‘coming soon’ page. Apparently, I was wrong. iPage is a lot more than just a hosting service provider. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 05:54:17

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/2/2009

In tonight’s news: Israel is poised to send ground troops into Gaza.A Muslim family was removed from a plane before takeoff, and is being compensated by the airline for the error. CAIR is in high dudgeon about the incident.Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway — is that a message for President-eject Bush? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 04:42:00

Loose Lips Daily: Fenty Bids Dubya Farewell

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—”Man Dies at City Detox Facility“; “Wilson Building Gift Grab Begins” DATELINE CHICAGO—Morning all [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:47:20

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/8/2009

The latest word is that an agreement with Russia has been reached, and the flow through the gas pipeline will resume.Also, look for the storming of the Israeli consulate in Montreal, as well as other Gaza-inspired violence around the world.Thanks to AA, Abu Elvis, Insubria, JD, Tuan Jim, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:49:00

Information Is Power 1_ EU Funding Orwellian Technology…

Information is Power 1 – EU funding Orwellian technology by IanPJ on Sun 20 Sep 2009 12:00 BST This morning the Telegraph tells us that the EU is funding an ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour” The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing “Orwellian” technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for “abnormal behaviour”. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 09:44:36

The Garrett, Watts Report (September 30, 2009)

    To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends, What would be better, (a) having one $40 million warehouse line with Bank of America, or (b) having $25 million with the Bank of America and $10 million with Comerica or Flagstar?  Even though (a) is for $40 million and (b) is for only $35 million, we’d probably recommend option (b).  Having two lines is almost always better than having just one, even if the one line is somewhat bigger than the two combined. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 18:45:19

Combating Abuse: A Model That Works

Abuse, especially of children, continues to be the elephant in the Orthodox room. The news stories won’t go away. The cynicism won’t go away ... . Aleinu is the Orthodox unit of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. It provides a gamut ... it with one of successful partnership. A huge amount of credit goes to Debbie Fox, a licensed clinical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:24:36

A Prime Solution to the US Banking Crisis

Chris Whalen runs Institutional Risk Analytics. ~~~~ The past several months have been a blur of activity ... credit CBS’s Bill Whitaker for planting the seed. He interviewed us about four months ago and asked IRA ... assembling an affordable online report, via The IRA Bank Cart, that provides all customers of banks as much [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 18:00:21

First Draft Of Stimulus Package

SUMMARY: AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT Action and Action Now! The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression. Credit is frozen, consumer purchasing power is in decline, in the last four months the country has lost 2 million jobs and we are expected to lose another 3 to 5 million in the next year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:03:30

Naivité RevealedJanuary 14, 2009

I am angry enough that I think my fingers will have cramps after about 2 minutes from the fast and furious typing I will do ... mistakes.Keywords: Free trial.You know, in the age of credit card fraud and identity theft, I always thought I was safe. Yes, I use my credit card to order books on amazon or sign up for netflix [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:47:12

Post-Holidays Ideal Time to Check for ID Theft

We know, we know: that stack of bills on your kitchen table can’t possibly have a bright side. Right? ... . Request a Credit Report Unless you’re planning on requiring one for another purpose (such as a loan) within the next 12 months, now is also a good time to order a credit report. (You may obtain [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:30:01

Eglin AFB Stumps the Identity Theft Expert

I just finished delivering an identity theft speech for the Department of Defense to the Airmen and Women of Eglin Air Force Base ... monitoring service truly free to military personnel, or is it just for certain personnel? I may ... ). I had heard several weeks ago on a different base that LifeLock offered this service to all members [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:46:42

Obama likely to retool Bush’s faith-based initiative

President-elect Obama has promised to build on the faith-based initiative of President Bush and, by adding key reforms, ... -neighborhood partnership. The broad outreach “is a matter of great credit to Obama ,” says Stanley Carlson ... that included religious elements in their social-service programming, a practice the courts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 19:25:19

LifeLock Review

LifeLock is the company that has a picture of their CEO, Todd Davis, ... service guarantee, everything else is free to the public. You May Not Need It If you are diligent ... . They will remember to put fraud alerts on your credit history at the three bureaus every 90 days [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:19:44

Free Credit Report

I was surprised to find out a while ago that a good portion of Americans did not know they could view their credit report ... that the can get an annual credit report to stay on top of what is happening with their own credit. Let me tell ... and they go on to the subject of financing and he asked him what his credit was like, he looked [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 04:27:55

Use TrustedID to Fight Identity Theft

With the incredibly rapid growth of ID theft, there have been several businesses that have been formed with the distinct objective of battling this crime epidemic. These ID theft prevention companies essentially lock down your credit bureau ... supply you with annual credit reports from all three credit bureaus, so that you can check to see [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 04:06:14

Operation Cast Lead Continues

Women of the IDF UPDATE 293. Last sentence more important than the rest ... come out, come out, wherever you are! The bombing of a UN school in Gaza killed 30, including children, who Hamas often use as human shields. Pictures of dead children in the Israel Air Force bombing of two United Nations schools in Gaza Tuesday afternoon have put Israel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 13:17:00

Friday Fraudster Mail

I am having difficulty locating local Ministers to work with in the Lord direction. Missionary Program, I have prayed that God will aid me in my search for people to spread his word but now is time to ask your help in this area. Please advise me on what to do [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:26:44

Grieving Families Suffer Further as Identity Thieves Target the Recently Deceased

There is much to deal with after the passing of a family member, the last thing you think you would have to do is deal with credit applications ... was stolen and used to apply for AMEX and BestBuy among other credit cards. Identity theft accounted ... a stolen identity. Consumer advocates have argued long and hard that "instant credit" standards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 22:31:36

Bailout Bounty: $5 Trillion And Counting

$5 trillion. That’s how much it has cost so far to bailout out corporate America from its own stupidity, greed and corruption ( ... facility since in January* $29 billion in Bear Stearns debt $60 billion of credit available to American ... collaterized debt obligations on which AIG wrote credit default swaps The Treasury Department $700 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 13:24:59

Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES

loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as  verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10

Obama Economic Team Widens Scope Of Financial Rescue

President-elect Barack Obama's economic team is scrambling to overhaul the financial rescue program for Wall Street and broaden it to ... in Treasury's monitoring of the use of taxpayer money." The forthcoming oversight report also was set to slam ... to municipalities, small businesses, homeowners and other consumers," the report said. "The [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:02:35

Oregon's mileage tax proposal

A few days ago I was intrigued by a couple news stories about Oregon's proposal to tax mileage instead of gas ... the lengthy report from the Oregon Department of Transportation that came out in 2007. In it, they discuss ... . Monitoring boxes were installed in the cars to keep track of the mileage, and a couple participating gas [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:59:00

Where’d the bailout money go? Shhhh, it’s a secret

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where’s the money going? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:59:38

More About Bad Credit Repair

It may not be possible to provide you with everything you wanted to know about credit repair in this brief article, ... that they have a credit report repair Software and also they will teach you credit repair secrets, for a fee of course. There is a lot of free information here, if you know where to look. Before you take a credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:23:12

Giveaway: MediaMonkey Media Manager

Giveaways is done for our Birthday Bash EXTRAVAGANZA, but not completely! Remember that you can still enter to win each of the Giveaways until Thursday evening at 7:00 PM. The Giveaways you’ll want to enter for today include: MediaMonkey Media Manager USB Docking Station with VGA Support Edraw Max Diagram Creator Daniusoft Media Converter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:11:58

Free Credit Report 3-in-1

A good reputation and credible name is something that we all want in our life ... of your credit history online from three major bureaus where the lenders get their basis for approving ... with a bad record or worse a bad credit reputation. Sometimes even if we don’t have loans [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:30:00

Media & Politics

Media & Politics 07-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news The Heretik Freedom Rider: Bush Goes Out a Winner (by Margaret Kimberley at the Black Agenda Report) Bush is leaving office in the popularity ... monitoring their sense of understanding. They may in fact be swinging between doubt and closure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:33:23

I’ve Become a Victim of the Credit Crunch

I already knew the credit card companies considered me a deadbeat, but I didn’t think I was that bad.  Sheesh ... : I love this card!! Their customer service is the absolute best.  THE BEST I TELL YA!  This speaks volumes because I expect superior customer service wherever I choose to spend my money. This is also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 11:12:43

College Money Tip #5: Get Your (Free) Credit Score

Last week, I took you through all the ways and reasons to track down your free credit report, ... t tell you how… until now. Remember how credit reports are like annoying report cards that show ... recommending Credit Karma - and some of my friends, too. So I decided to finally sign up and see how good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:41:32

Using Free Credit Reports And Credit Scores To Save Money

No doubt you've probably seen a commercial offering you the opportunity to request your free credit report or free credit score. Why all the big fuss? Why the big interest in credit scores and credit reports? To begin, you need to obtain copies of your credit score and credit reports. Let's start with your credit report first. You can get your free annual credit reports from the government. You can request the three major credit bureau reports every year. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 01:37:23

Why Even Good Credit Might Get Cut

(Photo: Dan Esparza) You can afford your mortgage, you have a high credit score and you pay your bills on time every month ... and how you shop. Here are a few examples of some of the ways that good credit may get cut off ... . So why did American Express just slash your credit limit? Could be because of where you shop [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:35:39

Innovation from Constraint (the extended dance mix)

I gave a talk a few weeks ago in Barcelona that was pretty well-received and widely blogged. Specifically, several bloggers have picked up and amplified the seven key points I offered in the talk - a list of principles that I believe characterize much of the best innovation coming out of Africa [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 20:45:09

at the Apple Macworld keynote… Update: Apple marketing exec Phil Schiller just announced at Macworld that starting immediately, 8 million songs on iTunes will be available without copy-protection, and that “By the end of this quarter, all 10 million songs will be DRM free.” Apple will, as rumored, offer new prices, 69 cents [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:02:36

The Free Credit Report Explained

The Free Credit Report Explained January 14th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed Would you say you know all different aspects involved in a credit ... report is showing up, a credit monitoring service is recommended just if your credit scoring plays ... monitoring your credit report since it is required every time you apply for a loan or some kind [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:41:09

Fifth of World Coral Reefs Lost, According to New Survey

The world has now lost fully one-fifth of its coral reefs to due warming seas, according to a global survey released on Wednesday. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Report also warned that much of the rest could be destroyed ... to build their shells. From MSNBC: “The report details the strong scientific consensus that climate [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 11:30:11

It’s That Time Again: Check Your Annual Credit Report

If you are new to No Debt Plan this may be a new feature for you. Every three months I post up a quick reminder to check your annual credit report ... not be named is the government mandated Annual Credit Report website. Through this site you can access ... the life of the loan. How to Check Your Annual Credit Report For starters I refuse to link [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:00:17

UNITED STATES FACES MUCH MORE RAPID GLOBAL WARMING

The United States faces the possibility of much more rapid climate change by the end of the century than previous studies have suggested, according to a new report led by the U.S. Geological Survey. The survey ... water north and colder water south; but the report projects an amount of potential sea level rise [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 06:53:35

Northeast Asia: 2008 Review

The northeast Asia region is becoming more integrated politically, economically and socially. State leaders from China, Japan and South Korea recently signed a Joint Statement for Tripartite Partnership to address the serious challenges in the global economy and the financial markets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 02:55:06

Monitoring your brand health - part one.

I have been wanting to tackle this idea again for a little while now, and recently a few thoughts have come together into this two-part blog post ... at the Washington Credit Union League annual convention in Spokane in 2007. Almost a year ago I addressed it again [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:08:19

Free Credit Report

With all the previous talks about financial freedom, even taking steps towards being free of debts, ... free credit report. This will enable you to get hold of what your running credit score is and allow ... and get started. It is always best to choose a free credit score than to have to pay [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:32:07

“What are mortgage interest rates based on?”

“What are mortgage interest rates based on?” The ONLY correct answer is Mortgage Backed Securities or Mortgage Bonds, ... Report or event that could cause interest rate movement?” A professional lender ... Discount Rate”. These are both very short-term rates that impact credit cards, home equity credit lines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:33:24

Criminals Potentially Have 3.3bn Line In Stolen Credit

With Christmas coming our credit cards may be in for some serious bending which is why the market for stolen credit card numbers has never been ... on the Underground Economy, spending a year monitoring the sale of online credit card, stolen goods and fraud services on underground forums, the value of services for sale was £185m. Credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 10:06:10

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2009

Forget global warming. Hello, global cooling! If the experts are right, we’re in for a new Ice Age.But it’s still the fault of George W. Bush, of course.Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fausta, Insubria, JD, KGS, Tuan Jim, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:37:00

Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

Identity theft is on the rise and people must be vigilant not only protecting their personal information, but monitoring their credit to ensure that they do not fall victim.  employeescreenIQ’s Rob ... that individuals can protect themselves. Don’t Let Someone Take Credit For (From) You!- By Rob [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:44:54

News: Gaza Strip(s) PC of Financial Data

Last week in a post entitled: "Got Hacked? Bank on It" ... with a password-stealing Trojan virus which scrapes the hard disk looking for banks/financial service data ... in your credit/deibt PAN (Personal Account Number) or PIN into a browser space that's "your bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:00:00

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