We recently completed the launch of Seattle DUI Attorney Aaron Wolff's new blog. The blog, featured here, will be Aaron's place to do what he wants with. Over the next few months, if this and a few other experimental blogs that we are launching for our clients prove successful, we will be broadening it to our whole program.
If you are a client of DUIattorney.com and want to participate, please contact me and let me know, so we can go over logistics and specifics.
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In the last update I forgot to mention that we also launched DWI Minneapolis, which is a WP blog that will cover a wide range of MN DWI issues in the Twin Cities area. The blog was in development for a client, but the client fell off the radar. Therefore, we will be using in in the interim to promote a range of good attorneys from the Minneapolis – St. Paul area. If you are a Minnesota DWI lawyer and practice in that area, let us know if you want your info added.
Dear Clients and Friends,
It's been a while since I've had a chance to update you on what has been happening with my various projects. Today, I'll start the process of updating with what's going on at DUIattorney.com.
With a bit of sadness and frustration, but mostly with relief, we announce the availability of its Minnesota DWI section, which includes the local Minneapolis DWI attorney section. Please excuse the dust for now as the state is being rebuilt. Minnesota continues to do very well, and we are trying to decide whether to keep it limited to one Minnesota DWI lawyer per county like all of the other states or allow multiple attorneys based on the landscape of the area.
Georgia DUI Attorney Richard Lawson has joined duiattorney.com, and is now the sponsor of all Atlanta area counties. His counties include: Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb.
California DUI Attorney Amy Morell joined duiattorney.com as the sponsor of many Northern California counties, including San Francisco, Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
California DUI Lawyer Darryl Genis has joined DUIattorney.com as the sponsor of Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara.
California DUI Lawyer Lawrence Taylor expanded his relationship with DUIattorney.com to include San Diego.
New Hampshire DUI Attorney joined DUIAttorney.com as the sponsor of the entire state.
Within the next several weeks we should have a fully functional support ticket system in place, but before that, our biggest change is…
…Rackspace has been very good to us on all fronts, and in my opinion the service and infrastructure simply can't be matched anywhere. Within the next couple of weeks we will be doing a serious upgrade of our primary server. We will be going from two processor cores to eight and doubling the amount of RAM on our server to 16 gigs. We will also be adding additional drives to our raid and upgrading our hardware firewall.
We expect to see zero downtime during the migration, although during the day of the switch, which will either be next weekend or the weekend after, we will temporarily suspend adding or changing content, meaning that our news staff will get the day off.
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To tired to be creative right now, but found this and it's so important that I wanted to make sure it got posted.
Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine: "Security expert Bruce Schneier writes about passwords often, and he distills Thompson's findings into a few rules: Choose a password that doesn't contain a readable word. Mix upper and lower case. Use a number or symbol in the middle of the word, not on the end. Don't just use 1 or !, and don't use symbols as replacements for letters, such as @ for a lowercase A—password-guessing software can see through that trick. And of course, create unique passwords for your different sites."
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Too tired to type much, so here's a video recapping the exciting week we had at DUIAttorney.com LLC.
Have a great weekend.
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Here are some predictions that Bruce Clay made in 2008, and I believe that we have seen some of them come to pass.
What is really interesting is his predicted doom of scraper sites. I have always thought that is where Google and other search engines would want to go. After all, there is no practical use for a site the just copies and regurgitates content (except maybe from a pay per click standpoint). Since Google and the others depend on the trust that users put in their searches, it makes sense that their policy would not favor sites like that which are untrustworthy.
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I just got a call from a computer at the Verizon directory asking me to confirm that I received the new phone directory. First of all, talk about invasive and rude. Not only does this company waste resources and energy making a disposable paper book that they then drive to my office, only to make me spend time and energy throwing it into the recycle bin, they have the audacity to have a computer call me to confirm this.
I'm in an office building where the phone book companies often leave a pile of books in the front lobby. Hardly anybody touches them, and then building maintenance has to throw them out.
What a waste of advertiser money and natural resources.
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After much experimenting and many misfires in the code, we have finally gotten an interactive national map that works for all states on DUIattorney.com.
We also have the ability to roll out state maps by county, which we will be doing on a scheduled basis for states that are not fully occupied by one firm, and on an as-requested basis for firms that have entire states.
We will keep our eye on the effects of the maps both from a usability and an SEO perspective, and make adjustments when needed. We also encourage client feedback… what do you like about it? Do you see any problems, or anything that annoys you?
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Microsoft has reported a serious security vulnerability in machines running XP and Server 2003 (which is probably the most common setup in law offices). Make sure your staff is aware of this, and go to Microsoft's website and follow the instructions to disable the problem until Microsoft patches it.
Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole by AP: Yahoo! Tech: "Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn't fixed yet.
The vulnerability disclosed Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computers run the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating software.
It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims' machines. The victims don't need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that's been hacked.
Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.
The so-called 'zero day' vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft affects a part of its software used to play video. The problem arises from the way the software interacts with Internet Explorer, which opens a hole for hackers to tunnel into.
Microsoft urged vulnerable users to disable the problematic part of its software, which can be done from Microsoft's Web site, while the company works on a 'patch' — or software fix — for the problem."
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