Our Microsoft Certified SharePoint instructor,  Michael Van Cleave,  has an interesting new blog post about our new Advanced SharePoint Developer Course. See his blog at RougeCoder.

This information was taken from ComputerJobs.com's "Salary Ticker", which is updated hourly ( I eliminated executive level and support level positions). The salaries listed are the average for that position.

1.  Wireless Systems           $123,000
2.  Unix Development            $98,000
3.  Technical Sales                 $84,000
4.  ERP Applications               $82,000
5.  Project Management        $82,000
6.  Data Warehousing           $80,000
7.  Legacy Systems               $75,000
8.  E-Commerce / Internet    $74,000
9.  Database Systems           $70,000
10.  Windows Development    $67,000

Squidoo is a Web 2.0 Social Media phenomenon that is rapidly gaining traction. Think of it as a combination of Wikipedia and Linkedin or as a MySpace for adults. With Squidoo, the user is able to rapidly create a page (called a lens) on any topic. This page can be about any subject they want - hobbies, interests, their organization, their profession, etc. There is no limit on how many lens a user can create.

The advantage to Squidoo is web traffic (and we are talking serious traffic here as Google loves Squidoo). It is not uncommon for a Squidoo lens page to appear on the first page of Google results for its title! If you are responsible for increasing Internet traffic to your organizations web site, you need to look at Squidoo. To see an example, here is a Squidoo lens that I just created for Microsoft Certifications.

A principle aspect of Web 2.0 is its use of the Internet to directly connect people with each other. This has resulted in an explosion of Social Media Sites such as Digg, Technorati, Del.ico.us, Flicker, and Facebook. Opportunity abounds here for the Internet Marketer, but where to start? In my research I came across an excellent article by Jane Copland of SeoMoz.org. In her article, she reviews 30 of the top Social Media Sites with comments on how they could be used to help promote your company and brand. Well worth reading!

How to Leverage Web 2.0 & Social Media Sites to Market Your Brand & Control Your Message

Last August Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which makes daylight saving time (DST) start three weeks earlier and end one week later. The law goes into effect this year, which means we will all “spring forward” our clocks at 2:00 A.M. this Sunday (March 11, 2007).

Normally, with Microsoft Windows you don't have to manually change the time for DST. The operating system does it for you. However, the operating systems (except for Vista) aren't aware of the Energy Policy Act. You will need to install updates to make the change.

Here are the links for instructions on downloading and applying the updates.

Windows XP and Windows 2003

Microsoft Outlook

Unfortunately, there is not a patch for Windows 2000 - you will need to update the computers manually.