This will actually be a fairly short monthly ramble, my apologies. I'm writing this part of the newsletter around 9am on Monday the 2nd. And the newsletter that goes out will actually be without a couple of things. And whose fault is this?

It's all mine, baby. Yup.

But back to business.

First of all, congrats to Senior Tech Steve Buchwald for getting his first Server 2012 Cert. The annoying thing is that I asked him if he could do it and about two weeks later he emailed me confirmation of passing the test. Yup, he already knows the stuff. Like I said, annoying.

Speaking of Steve, he and I attended

a Microsoft Boot camp in Columbus dealing with Microsoft's Azure offering. We've been using it in house for a bit, but we're looking to increase it as an offering to customers. More on that to come.

Speaking of, well, me, I attended a Sophos Partner Conference in Las Vegas in May, and came away with a new perspective on Security as a process, not as a gathering of products. You're going to hear more on that in the coming months.

Also, security on mobile devices? Scares me a lot more than it did a month ago. Again, more on that to come.

Hey, have you ever attended a Lunchinar? Yes? No? Well, either way, I'd love to get some feedback from you about our program. Click here to take our quick survey (and possibly win a Simplex-IT Glitter lamp!).

Had fun talking about Google Glass (and a lot of other stuff) at May's AITP meeting, with about 40 or so folks in attendance.

And then spoke to the Ohio CPA's gatherings in Youngstown and later in Cleveland on IT trends. They keep asking me back, I'll keep showing up!

Speaking of showing up, are you coming to our picnic in August? You should RSVP for that. You really should.

Finally, did you know that we actually posted 30 items beyond our blog entries last month, using Twitter, Facebook and Linked in? Did you know about Android Ransomware, or Microsoft's new Surface Pro 3? You really should follow us, you know.