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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She mentions a round of layoffs as an example of breaking trust, and I’m glad she included that. All too often, when a round of layoffs occurs, senior management will return to talking about the culture or set of core values they expect all employees to follow without ever acknowledging that it’s different now. You can’t just return to talking about the importance of teamwork and diversity when you just canned 10% of the team as if nothing happened.
Oh, want to know what I learned today? When you remotely install Symantec’s Corporate edition AV product, make sure the user either has Outlook closed when you do it, or restarts Outlook immediately after you do it. The Outlook add-in does some things that make certain features of Outlook go pretty bonkers. Nothing a quick…
Seems like while I was sleeping away my migraine, (I’m much better now, thanks for the well-wishes Meryl!) that I didn’t miss much today, eh? There were no pages from work, no big breaking tech news to report, at least that I’ve found in the last few minutes of reading, and no big personal news….
I noticed a post today by Rob Merrill (mostly because he linked to me in the post) on the Good Recruits blog titled Yes they are looking. I thought what he had to say tied in nicely with some of my own thoughts recently about the job I left behind. If you are currently the…
As if the struggle to keep up with technological change wasn’t hard enough for those of us in the industry, now we’ve got to deal with reports that are made up by GenAI? No, Windows 12 Isn’t Replacing Windows 11 Anytime Soon A now retracted PCWorld article published on March 2, 2026, claimed that Windows 12 was…
As a followup to that article I told you about previously. It now seems that the Greek Court has thrown out the anti-gaming law. More follow up on Trillian Pro from Absoblogginlutely. I agree, a free trial period would be a pretty big plus. I’ve determined to wait and see how other people’s experiences go…