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iDNS and Cpanel scams
A few clients have received letters/emails related to two types of scams. iDNS Scam First, the iDNS domain registration scam where they send letters that look like the one below near registration renewal time appearing to be a renewal letter. However, they are actually trying to trick you into transferring your domain registration to their […]
AdvantageCreations.com Website Redeveloped
We have begun to roll out our new website design! Before we had a hybrid of both Drupal and WordPress. Now everything is in WordPress and we are now using Woocommerce (our preferred shopping cart) to manage all transactions. If you are a current client you should be receiving a new login shortly. If […]
Burlington Business Association (BBA) 2014 Waterfront “FAM” Tour
We’re back at Advantage Creations headquarters from the Burlington Business Association (BBA) 2014 Waterfront “FAM” Tour, Sponsored by Spirit of Ethan Allen. The annual theme of meeting is to, “hear what [Burlington] Waterfront businesses have in store for Burlington this summer!” Many companies and locations on the Burlington waterfront are already open for summer business! Many […]
Future of Freedom Foundation with Young Americans for Liberty at UVM
On 4/11/2014, Jacob G. Hornberger and Sheldon Richman of The Future of Freedom Foundation held a talk at UVM hosted by the UVM chapter of Young Americans for Liberty. It was a very good talk focused getting government out of our daily lives and out of foreign affairs. It seemed that the biggest area of […]
How to Change the Future with Brian David Johnson – Intel Futurist
Brian David Johnson (@IntelFuturist) describes his job as Futurist at Intel as telling the company what people will be doing 10-15 years into the future so that they can plan the technology now. Below are some notes Heavenly and I took from the lecture: Johnson said he “Wants to design things that embrace the complexities […]
Does Increasing the Minimum Wage Work?
Post by Burlington Free Press. Increasing the minimum wage shouldn’t make much of a difference as the starting wage, whatever it is, is always going to be at the bottom. When you increase the minimum wage the wages for everyone else will go up to compensate for the difference as the person that’s been […]
Vote No on Gun Control Ballot Items in Burlington
Ballot Items 6, 7 and 8 are about gun control and are probably the most controversial ballot items on the ballot. My guess is that like most things that city government tries to do this is just a step towards a complete gun ban in Burlington, which I’m sure some of the supporters of these […]
Remembering Karen Kerin – Vermont Libertarian Candidate for Attorney General
Karen was a fiscally conservative, pro-liberty supporter of the law as created by the nation and state founders. While campaigning, Karen fought for victim’s rights, regulatory reform and gun rights. Karen felt there was too little justice for the victims of crime. Karen felt that we had too many laws and regulations that intruded on […]
I’m dreaming of an Icy Christmas
My first post of 2014, begins with ranting about the weather ending in 2013, and continuing into 2014. Luckily, here in the New North End of Burlington, we had no power outages with the ice storm that left almost 1/2 an inch of ice over everything… The first day of the storm, we had an […]
DIY Websites with WordPress
From time to time we find that people want the lowest cost option available to get a web site started but still have the option to get outside help with the development/updating of the site. While we haven’t officially published this as a service, we have been offering to setup installation of WordPress (or Drupal […]
Remembering Hardy Macia – Vermont Libertarian Activist
Last Sunday, I attended the “Celebration of Life” for Hardy Macia, former chair of the Vermont Libertarian Party and one of Vermont’s greatest Libertarian-activists. It was very moving to see so many people express how much he touched their lives. I said a few words about Hardy. For those interested, I have posted a transcript below…
Merchants Bancshares Inc MBVT – Buy
Banking stocks are down a bit today, including Merchant’s Bank (MBVT), as a result of an Massachusetts court decision against Bank of America (BAC) which voided a couple foreclosure sales the bank made, which violated Massachussetts law.
Leahy’s Bill to Censor Internet
Today the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 19-0 vote. COICA would empower the attorney general to get court orders barring Internet providers from routing their users to sites suspected of copyright infringement. Many people are concerned about this due to the possible unintended consequences that these types of government actions often have. Read the COICA Fact Sheet by DemandProgress.org for more details and reasons to be against it. They also have a petition to sign if you like.
Google Voice Review
For several months now we have been testing Google Voice with our businesses. Overall it’s worked out quite well.
Thoughts on Burlington Telecom Crisis
I believe that Burlington Telecom’s current financial situation is a concern for the City of Burlington’s economic health. The city already has so much on it’s plate, I don’t think that it needs the extra burden of trying to keep a risky upstart afloat in an extremely competitive industry such as telecommunications.
Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy by Lawrence Reed
Last week the Ethan Allen Institute put on presentation at Sheraton featuring guest speaker Lawrence Reed. He had some very good things to say about how to put Vermont (or any state or locality) back on the right track. The main part of of speech was about seven principles that if followed by everyone involved in crafting policy in government would help improve our economy and way of life as we would be a much freer and more industrious people.
Presidential Internet Kill Switch
Yesterday, EWeek published an article about a Presidential Internet Kill Switch, that would provide the power to the President of the United States to shut down the Internet whenever the President felt there is threat to strategic national interests.
Some Thoughts on Healthcare/ Health Insurance
There has been much discussion regarding Obama’s Health Insurance proposal lately. I find most of it disturbing in that it seems to be a big power grab by the government instead of a solution. To name a few problems…
AIG Bonuses Outrage… Who to blame?
It has been recently reported that AIG has paid a significant amount of the bailout money received from the US government as bonuses to executives and trading partners.
Vermont Legislative Pay: Is it too low or too high?
Yesterday, I heard some discussion on the Charlie and Ernie show regarding legislative pay. It seems that many people are under the impression that the pay is low and that it shouldn’t be cut like other state employees that are making more than $60,000/year. The argument is that legislative pay is only $625.36/week or $11,256 for 18 weeks or $7.93/hour.
Digsby Review IM’s, email and social networking in one App!
Digsby Instant Messager – organize all your IM, email and social networking accounts in one place.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Wishing you all a happy and safe Christmas and new year! Below is a animated Christmas Card and a great light show.
Fed Cuts Interest Rate, Inflation, and the Next Bubble
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday cut its target for overnight interest rates to zero to 0.25 percent, bringing it closer to unconventional action to lift the economy out of a year-long recession.
NY Governor Paterson Proposes Soft Drink “Obesity Tax”
As if there aren’t enough taxes, you could soon be paying more for soda. In an effort to close the $15 billion state budget gap, New York Governor David Paterson is calling for a 15 percent tax on soft drinks. If you drink diet, you’re okay. The tax would only be imposed on regular, non-diet soft drinks. The logic: it could generate more than $400 million while helping to curve obesity.