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After doing a lot of thinking certification opportunities that exist out there in the IT industry, I have decided that maybe I should get the ball rolling and get out there and get a new IT certification. I think it’s just about time that I take the bull by horns and practice what I have been preaching.

Today, I began to seriously look into Cisco certification. I know it might be a difficult certification for me to get, but it will be a very valuable certification that will pay dividends in the form of a better job. Just the credibility alone of a decent certification will be worth its weight in gold. It will be the perfect complement to my existing IT skills and expertise.

Normally, when I look into certifications and how I can teach myself the material that is taught in them. This works well for software, but since the Cisco certification is about the hardware, I will not be able to just sit at the computer and play around with it until it gets working. Nope, I am going to need to find a training program that goes along with the certification program.

Naturally, I am excited about this. I know that I will be able to keep working as a consultant(with an expanded level of expertise) or I can even take on contract employment to implement and manage Cisco routers and systems. I guess this is what has got me salivating right now. I am really looking forward to the opportunities.

It’s been a while since I talked about GLM Environment so I figured it was time for an update. The platform/environment is working out very nicely. It’s still very much in alpha at this stage because I had a few important things come up, but it’s nice to see that it has already turned into a profitable script.

It is generating income on a couple of domains of mine right now as I write this. If I had more time in my schedule to do more promotion of it, I am sure that it would produce even more income. It’s nice to see that several of my projects are seeing genuine success.

What’s next for GLM Environment? It needs some more polishing and more testing. At that stage, I will look at selling it. I promise to keep you, my readers, updated on the progress.

I often post about web hosting because web hosting is one of the most important building blocks of an internet business. If a domain name is comparable to internet land, then web hosting compares to buildings and infrastructure. Good hosting goes hand in hand with a quality domain name.

One of the worst things that can happen to your online business is downtime. Downtime affects things negatively because customers can not reach your site. If they can’t reach it once, they may never come back to it. That’s why quality web hosting is so important. You want good quality hosting that doesn’t let you down.

How can you find the best web hosting? One way is to check out Web Hosting Geeks. They have a listing of the best web hosts. They separate web hosts into several categories depending if you need the budget web hosting or even web hosting with free domains. You can read reviews and see ratings so you can make an informed purchase of web hosting.

There was a transformer explosion and a resulting fire over the weekend at the Planet Data Center in Houston. It’s hard to believe that these kind of freak accidents can happen, but they do. All the best laid plans can easily be put asunder with a freak accident.

In this case, no data was lost, just internet connectivity was lost until power could be restored. The question pops, though, what would have happened if data had been lost? Do you have an offsite backup? Do you have a plan ready should data be lost? How often do you make backups?

I will discussing a few ways to backup web files in the next week or so.

I have a plugin that works great with WordPress and works with the newest versions as well as older versions. It does what it needs to do and does it right. There aren’t any annoying bugs in the code. It just works solid.

I often times wonder if I should just update it for no reason. See, people expect you to update your plugin from time to time. They want to you update it to fix bugs even if no bugs exist or so it seems. I am in a bit of a quandry here trying to decide what I should in fact do. How often to update it?

Imagine my surprise when I saw that Wordcamp Philippines has been scheduled for September 8, 2008. I have always been interested in attending a Wordcamp, but they always occur far away at inopportune times.

Ok, sure this one is far away, but as luck would have it. We will be in the Philippines during that time so it is beginning to look like a definite possibility that I might be able to attend WordCamp Philippines when it rolls around. I just to see the schedule when they get it up and see just what speakers they have lined up for the event. If they can get a big name blogger or developer, then I make sure our trip is scheduled around the camp.