In the days and weeks ahead I would encourage you to Start 2011 With This Kind Of Change:
Everyone works on change on their outside, weight control, stop smoking, add exercise. But this year in your meditation or making 2011 your BEST ever year, think about change ON YOUR INSIDE.
Happiness- know what makes you happy and do more of that stuff.
Inner PEACE- do whatever it takes to secure this in your life and you will be miles ahead of everyone around you and at near self mastery
Health- make it on your to do list to check INSIDE your body – blood test, blood pressure measurement, and colonoscopy, health screenings as age appropriate.
Social- check your attitude toward others and put Mr. or Miss Grumpy out to pasture. Say in your mind you have mellowed out and that agitated old self of yours has been put out to pasture and you are going to walk around with a lot more smiles on your face and keep your mouth shut to much negativity. The world will start working a lot better for you with people in your life.
Mental- Try something novel and get better at it, like a foreign language or musical playing. At the end of 2011 you will have something you don't have now.
Look INSIDE YOU with resolutions this year, and from the INSIDE OUT make a better you in 2011. Life is short. Don't delay.
Happy New Year 2011 !!
Next Tuesday will be Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for the month of October. For IT admins this means it’s time to clear your calendar and prepare to address a record-setting 16 security bulletins addressing 49 different identified vulnerabilities. This breaks the current record of 14 security bulletins that were issued back in August 2010.
Most of the updates plug security holes that could allow malevolent internet users to inject malicious code into the users’ computers. As these holes are usually in features not switched on by default, Microsoft usually labels them as Important (the most critical updates are labeled Critical).
It’s a long list of affected software that includes: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3, Office 2003 Service Pack 3, Office 2007 Service Pack 2, Office 2010, Office 2004 for Mac and 2008 for Mac, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Server 2007, Groove Server 2010, and Office Web Apps.
These patches are considered important as we head into the last quarter of the year, a time when many businesses have a heavy volume of online shopping. This period sees many financial and retail companies going into lockdown mode where they don’t update their systems.
Microsoft will release the 16 updates at approximately 1 p.m. ET on Oct. 12. I think I'll take that afternoon off and turn off my phones.
Ed