A five-year-old recently destroyed a $15,000 Lego sculpture within an hour of the exhibit's opening in China. I think it's safe to say that whoever was responsible for security has never been a parent with young children. When my daughter was that age, I wouldn't let her around a dollar set of glassware unsupervised. ... News reports continue to appear about the discovery of a small number of Nile crocodiles in Florida. They are much like their American counterparts except for being bigger, more aggressive and showing a taste for people.

SSI Consulting has been chosen as a Partner of the Year by Unanet, which makes on-premise and cloud-based project accounting applications. The other two firms honored both serve government contractors. These are Strategic Consulting Solutions and Redstone GCI. Vienna, Va.-based SSI, which became a Unanet referral partner in 2008, is now a full-fledged reseller. SSI, led by Bill Aiton, also offers Dynamics GP and SL and Intacct.

Socius has followed up last fall's acquisition of the Dynamics GP practice of I.B.I.S. by opening an office in Dunwoody, Ga. The new facility in the Atlanta area will employ 25 people initially with the company saying it has plans for aggressive growth in the next year. The office is the twenty-ninth for Dublin, Ohio-based Socius which resells the four Dynamics accounting applications, NetSuite, Sage 100 and 500, and Syspro.