Yeah that title does seem like a contradiction, doesn’t it?
Seriously though, I got an email over the weekend from Steve, who wants to start up a Google group called “One-person IT Department” Seems like that might be an interesting idea. If it interests you, drop by, join up and start a conversation!
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Found some interesting reading over in the In The Trenches listener forums about someone just starting out at an admin position and the mess that he’s dealing with. The responses have been interesting to follow as well. I’m using this post both as a way of making myself a note to check out where the…
So I got here this morning, and our internet connection was still down. The nice folks at the phone company did get it working just before 9AM, approximately 20 hours or so after they did something to cause the problem to begin with. Now everyone can get back to online shopping, online banking, sending personal…
Steven is having hosting issues. The amazing thing is that this is hardly rare in the hosting world, bad service abounds! Just wait until they hit you with the legal threats for posting it on the site. I got those for the article and the forum I setup for their customers. Of course in that…
Over at the eDiscovery 101 blog there’s a good response to the fact that “82 percent of employees use their personal email accounts to send large work-related files when an email attachment exceeds the size limit imposed by IT.” I agree with all of the points Bill makes, except one. Can you guess which one?…
Random cantankerous thoughts that I’ve thought this week: People who feel the need to remind you how open minded they are, aren’t. It’s probably time to bail when the association you work for decides that the very core of what it does, isn’t something they can sell to people and their own marketing people start…
Here’s what I don’t get. Everyone gets the occasional stupid, downright offensive comment, right? Why then do some bloggers make such a big deal over them? Why do they engage these people in an argument, or publicly expose their IP address or whatever other information they can get hold of? What purpose does it really…