Spent some time this weekend with the wife, and spent some time away from tech stuff, which was needed to get away from my tech frustrations at least. The other frustrations I was feeling on Friday were professional and they’re not going to change any time soon, that’s for sure, but at least I don’t feel like never touching a computer again. *L*
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We’re down visiting the in-laws today and I’ve spent a few hours fixing their PC and cleaning it up some. They got caught with virus definitions that fell ever so slightly behind the speed of new malware showing up and wound up with a pretty nasty trojan that killed their Internet access, disabled their AV,…
Thanks to a link on SimpleGeek, I saw this article by Michael Hyatt called “How to Sell Your Boss”. While not as specific to IT as some of the stuff I’ve been talking about, some of the general ideas are similar, and well, let’s face it, it’s written more elegantly than anything I blog. 🙂…
A technology company engaging in anti-competitive behavior. The installation for their software makes sure that their peripheral will only operate with said software and disable it’s ability to communicate with the competitor’s software. Why that no good lousy, Bill.. What’s that? Oh it’s Apple. Nevermind…. Yes that was sarcasm, personally, I don’t use iTunes or…
I had turned off my webalizer stats on this site a long time ago because of the number of spam referrers I was getting, in hopes that they would go away if there were no actual on-line links that they could get a benefit from by spamming my referrer logs, and after that I pretty…
Spent most of today in bed, again. I finally got hungry and ate something around 5 this afternoon, that seemed to go fairly well and I’ve spent the rest of the evening getting hungry after not really keeping anything down for almost two days. That’s a good sign, right? 🙂 Anyway, I’m way behind on…
Doesn’t appear as though anything major has been awaiting my arrival, with the exception of the failed hard drive that I already knew about last week. Replacement part should be in tomorrow so that will take care of that. I still have quite a bit of work that needs to get done over the next…