Generally speaking, I like the idea. Where it falls flat for me is when someone sends me their travel itinerary so that I know their coming and goings, and Google adds the trip to my calendar.
If they can get a filter for that sort of thing, that would be great. Are you listening Google?
This is really a cool idea. I always feel bad when I go back and look at a post here that I wrote years ago, and realize that without being able to follow the link, it doesn’t quite make as much sense now. Of course, that’s just the reality of blogging, eventually some of the…
I’ve been catching up with some older podcasts that I’ve been meaning to listen to lately, and one of them was a Freakonomics episode entitled “America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up” In it, Steve Levitt posits that the math we teach in high school is outdated, and unnecessary in today’s modern age of technology, and…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, it seems that some of the things that innocent people might use to protect themselves from bad people, are being threatened by some faulty logic. First, it was social networks and online communication, where all sorts of mean behavior was being blamed on anonymity: After people-rating…
I didn’t even realize you couldn’t use more than one signature in a message in Outlook 2007. I use that feature quite often for boilerplate messages at work, but we’re still using 2003 there. Thankfully, the latest edition of WinXP News has the way to continue to do this in Outlook 2007. How to get…
I had a random thought today while I was processing some e-discovery documents. I stumbled upon a resume, and noticed that the author name didn’t match the name on the resume. That got me thinking. Now, certainly there are plenty of reasons why the author name would not match the name on the resume, things…
Hope all you Sys Admins out there are getting the appreciation you deserve. It’s been awhile since I was in that sort of strictly IT position, but as someone who is currently using up network resources like nobody’s business, I appreciate what these folks do. All you Litigation Support people should be especially appreciative. Do…