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The City of Prescott Valley received two awards for their very cool website.  It’s easy to navigate, simple, and functional.  I even like the color.

The Town of Prescott Valleyrecently received two awards for its website, www.pvaz.net, from two international contests.

However, it seems the website was actually created by Vision Internet, a government website development company with over 300 clients in 35 states.  Does that matter? No… Congrats to the PV IT team for utilizing a good website developer.  In fact, if I had been the IT person in charge, I would have done exactly the same thing.

Via The Daily Courier

OMG, this is the best Cheesecake on the planet!

This is the best cheesecake I’ve ever had in my entire life.  My wife, my friends, and my colleagues all say the same thing, “best cheesecake I’ve ever had”.  I’ve had good cheesecake, and I’ve sampled cheesecake from San Francisco to New Jersey, and nobody comes even close to Shannon’s cheesecake’s.  I can not describe the pure awesomeness of this cheesecake; but I will try. Continue reading »

How can this window sticker hurt you?

It tells criminals a lot about you.  The pedophile now knows you have three children.  The killer who’s going to break into your house now knows they have to murder two adults, three children, a dog, and a cat.  When I point this out to people, they always respond with “I’ve never thought of it that way before.”  Criminals aren’t necessarily creative, but they do see things differently than most law-abiding citizens.  If they find a weakness, they are likely to exploit it.  The best defense is information security.

The Prescott Daily Courier reports “Phone, web scams clogging local law agencies“.  The article contains a laundry list of stories about local people getting scammed, and they’re in good company.  Everybody gets fooled, even multi-million-dollar corporations.

Here are some things you can do to protect yourself. Continue reading »