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  • One of those mornings

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Quiet blog today, I’m having one of those “Do any of you people even pay attention to what goes on around here, or do you just wait for me to do it for you?” mornings…. Sometimes trying to be good at your job, and staying on top of things, just isn’t worth it when no…

  • Reading with my coffee

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Finally a day without fires to put out, maybe I can get caught up on the tech happenings around the ‘net this week: Windows 2000 SP3 is available. As Josh says in his pointer to it, there’s not much info on exactly what it does, so I’ll be following my normal “wait and let someone…

  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’m at work now with my green on, and a handful of Irish CD’s ready to listen to all day. (Flogging Molly, Black 47, Prodigals, Young Dubliners, Seven Nations, etc. Couldn’t find the Pogues or Dropkick Murphy’s CD’s this morning.) Must be St. Patrick’s Day! The only thing missing is a Guinness to sip on…

  • Freeware licensing

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    A very good review by Fred Langa of licensing issues when it comes to using freeware inside of a business environment. The article was spurred by an emailer who talked about wanting to use freeware products to help with spyware but was getting caught in a corporate environment that required proof of license purchase before…

  • Lightbulb moments

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’m sure by now we’ve all heard the horror stories of working on a helpdesk, and after 7 plus months working on one I can totally see exactly where they’re coming from, and even have a few of my own. On the other hand, one thing that I get working on a helpdesk far more…

  • Funny

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I haven’t blogged about the new anti-spam law in Virginia because I didn’t really think there was anything new to add to what’s already been written. But this morning, as I listened to the local radio station WWCD, I heard something worth blogging about it. As they were discussing the news story, the morning DJ…

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