Using the new beta version (2008) of Windows Live Writer to post this. I’ve been a fan of WLW for awhile now and they really do just keep making it better.
Of course, now that they’ve rolled all these Live services into one installer, trying to just get Live Writer involves a whole lot of unchecking options during the installation. Can’t say I’m a big fan of that.
I’ve noticed in the last couple of days that a number of blogs I’m subscribed to that use the auto-posting features of delicious, or pull in that RSS feed of bookmarks have been shopping up with some “odd” entries of late. I’ve not been using delicious of late myself, but I still have an account….
This is pretty horrible. “Patients sitting in emergency rooms, at chiropractors’ offices and at pain clinics in the Philadelphia area may start noticing on their phones the kind of messages typically seen along highway billboards and public transit: personal injury law firms looking for business by casting mobile online ads at patients. The potentially creepy…
This is a fascinating look at a pretty complex and coordinated hacking group, Fin7. They used a lot of the same tools that companies use for project management and remote collaboration, and they specifically targeted the types of employees who would be likely to expect emails from strangers, like this one: “On or around March…
So yeah, we need to talk about this. Not just in IT, in every industry and workplace. 1 in 10 Americans reports suffering from depression. If you have more than 10 people working in your company, there is a very, very good chance that someone there is dealing with depression, and is at risk. They, like me, need help.
Some interesting observations from a new survey focusing on IT and Social Network usage within larger businesses, but one bit in the article really jumped out at me. End users gave many reasons for doing an end-run around their IT departments: IT is too slow, they have little confidence in the department’s problem-solving abilities, they…
That’s what Michelle Golden suggested last week, and I tend to agree. I see this most plainly trying to document the time I spend in the office. I’m an hourly employee, technically I’m supposed to do work in the office, and then stop. Except, in the era of constant connectivity, how am I really supposed…
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