Vlad Mazek wrote a post today that I think that all independent consultants and small consulting shops should review.
Among other things, Vlad is proposing a network of consulting professionals and companies who can work together to leverage each others strengths:
There are literally thousands of people worldwide you can *compete with together*. The advantage is twofold:

You […]

Last week, while setting up a backup solution for a customer, I learned something interesting about the Windows XP Job Scheduler:
It will not run a scheduled job if the user has a blank password.
Yeah, I know, you shouldn't have a blank password anyway, but some people just don't want to fool around with passwords on […]

I ran into an issue a couple of months ago where the CPA of one of my customers was having trouble using the NetScreen VPN client ( to talk to my customer's network ) and a Cisco VPN client ( to talk to another customer ) using the same workstation.
I finally traced the issue down […]