We have a new employee starting tomorrow. We listed her in our website’s staff directory on Friday. I went to setup a PC to log in to her email this afternoon, and there was already spam in the account! The spam directed at her got here before she did. If that doesn’t smack of an almost useless technology, I don’t know what does.
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“Today should be a little bit of a back to normal day” Yeah I should have known better than to say that. I blame the lack of sleep last night for that momentary lack of common sense. I’d forgotten just how new a couple of my fellow employees are and how many things they haven’t…
Since I was already in the “web programming” mood when I got home, what with the ATOM feed on Angela’s blog, and since the DNS seems to have caught up with the server move on the child abuse site, I went ahead and upgraded the Movable Type installation over there, and added an atom feed…
An IT director’s lot is not a happy one. No suprise here really, network security and virus threats keep all of us on our toes, and if you’re unlucky enough to be the place where the buck stops when it comes to being responsible for this stuff, it’s a pretty stressful situation. On the other…
Thanks to a tip from Sikko2Go (an interesting monicker, to be sure.), I was able to get the comments emailed again. For those of you keeping score at home the relevant changes are: Change “CDONTS.NewEmail” to “CDO.MESSAGE” Change “mail.Body=MailBody” to “mail.htmlBody=MailBody” Take out the next line “mail.importance=1”. – I’m not sure if there’s something you…
Speaking of IT folks solving their own problems, Jason has an interesting problem he’s trying to solve with the public wifi hotspots where he works. I don’t have a solution, but I tend to think that if you’re creating public hotpots you don’t worry about neighbors getting access. Of course, maybe that’s just me. Follow…
Saw this post over at Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator about integrity. It, obviously, focuses on working the security/consulting side of things, but I think it’s an important part of any good IT professional’s career. To most people within our organization, our word is all they get to hear about technical…