SteveLivesInSLO

I totally 100% agree with you-- there is a crazy shortage of qualified software and IT engineers.

The funny part is the only people who will agree with you are other hiring managers. Everyone else will say you aren't paying enough or some other excuse. They are never sifting through the resumes or sitting through the interviews.

If we ever stumble across a qualified candidate, we make it happen. We just can't find very many qualified candidates.

Set your DNS records TTL to something relatively small like an hour.

If you are hit with a DDOS and want to direct traffic through a DDOS mitigation service you will often need to point your domain at their servers. If your DNS TTL is 48 hours then you will be up a creek for quite a while.

LiveScribe: A pen that writes on paper and saves a digital copy of everything. Also, records audio. You touch your pen to your writing and it will play back the audio that was occurring at the moment you were writing that word.

You can use the digital copy of your writing in OneNote or EverNote and it can read your handwriting allowing you to search.

Here is a clip from a radio talk show where a caller happens to have TWO smoke detectors chirping in the background because of low battery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phKAYe9T08A

Google 'Loveline Smoke Detector' and you will get about 40 to 60 unique calls of just these two radio hosts getting calls where the caller happens to have a low battery chirping in the background.