Some days you’re sitting here and everything’s working well, no one really is hitting you up with requests and you’re almost, dare I say it, a little bored. Other days, well, many things don’t work and everyone needs something from you now, and you just don’t see how you can possibly get to everything. Needless to say, every day since coming back from vacation (including last Sunday, and this past Friday night!) has been in the latter group.
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Yes we are only working until noon today, which is cool. Angela and I are going to try and catch a showing of Gangs of New York this afternoon and dinner before the snow gets too bad this evening. I probably won’t be blogging again until I’m back at work on Thursday, so let me…
Specifically, let’s talk about work hours and home hours. Much is being made about this article, which quotes a new study that says that people with home internet access wind up spending more time working from home than they waste surfing at work. It raises some interesting points. Here, we understand that there is occasionally…
I did finally get around to updating the list of freeware that I use over on the bottom of the left hand column of the blog this weekend. For those of you reading in aggregators who never see the actual blog page, I’ll recreate the list once for you here. In no particular order, Trillian…
Yeah it’s time to crack open the case on that laptop and replace the hard drive. It occurs to me that of all the HD replacements I’ve done over the last few years of working here, this will be the first time I’ve done one on a laptop. That’ll be something new and interesting to…
Looks like Robert’s brother, Alex, is blogging about his life as an IT Manager for a small law firm. Should be interesting stuff! As a small business IT guy myself, I can empathize with the headaches that switching from WordPerfect to Office 2003 are going to bring. Not so much in the technology, but in…
One of the PC’s here in the office just went from having over 400MB free on the C: drive to 4MB free in a matter of a few minutes. Apparently, using the graphics software to create a .pdf out of scanned documents left behind a handful of 99MB temp files, not to mention the 25MB…
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