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Archive for May, 2008

The Trimtab Blog Goes Dark

Unfortunately, unless there is interesting tech news and a computer somewhere in the South African bush, this blog is about to die for three weeks. It is going to be crazy hard to be gone that long, but I have a great team to cover for me. Talk to you June 1!

- Dan

I have personally been a Quickbooks user, in several capacities different capacities, for the last 8 years. It is an OK product from a functionality perspective. It is relatively easy to use and has become the default standard for accounting software in small businesses. For that reason, we are often required to deal with supporting […]

Is this familiar…

This is an old cartoon and I’m sure many have seen it before but how can you not love it? This is so typical of the experience small business owners have with technology projects. I like to think that we build tire swings, repeatedly and predictably because of a new approach to business technology… but […]

For many years now, the “IT” industry has been focused mainly on “securing the network”. The idea here being that the way the company secures it’s information assets is like the way it secures its physical assets… computers outside the corporate building can’t get onto the corporate network, which where all of the corporate data […]