Please, you had to know that a news story as big as SARS would have virus writers running to be the first to spread a computer virus by pretending to be information about a real live virus, didn’t you?
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Yes it’s true, I hardly touched my computers all weekend long. The only time I spent online really was Saturday night, getting the latest inury updates before the fantasy footballl draft yesterday and then last night, checking the meager job listings in various places that we want to live in. After last week I wanted…
So did your office recognize Systems Administrator Appreciation Day? Unfortunately, some of our own IS folks didn’t know it was today until our network admin wished them a happy sysadmin day first thing this morning. Later, when I brought in donuts, he was happy to see that someone else remembered. 🙂 We did manage to…
Been such a busy morning that I just looked up and was amazed that it’s almost lunch time. Cool! I like those kinds of days! Of course, I have to spend my lunch bringing my new glasses back because the lens popped out yesterday, but oh well, it’ll be nice to get out of the…
Let’s start from the beginning shall we? Last week, at some point, a co-worker got one of those forwarded twenty times, chain-letter, emails. Naturally the person who sent this email to everyone they now, didn’t use the BCC function in their email, they just had dozens and dozens of To: addresses listed on it. Not…
Last night I listened to the latest In the Trenches podcast. Kevin and his guest, Chuck Tomasi were discussing a number of issues that I feel strongly about, and have been reminded of recently in my own workplace. They were talking about the image you, as an IT person, project to the people you support…
We had someone leave our office this week. He ended his employment here effective Dec. 1. Before he left, he decided to clean up his files and stuff and deleted a bunch of stuff that he figured no one would need once he was gone. This morning, a couple of the women I work with…