Author: Mike McBride

  • New wireless connection

    Last night, the intermittent drop outs of my wireless connection due to the old SMC router finally drove me over the edge. So I figured, it’s an old router, surely there’s a firmware update, right? Turns out there was, and it turns out that doing the upgrade got rid of the intermittent drops. I couldn’t…

  • Comments

    Hey, why didn’t anyone tell me the template tags weren’t correct and the new comments weren’t working? Oh yeah, probably because no one could leave a comment, huh? Should be fixed now. Tags: Comments

  • Blackberry, etc.

    Just yesterday some of us were gathered in the area of the helpdesk, discussing the NTP/RIM lawsuit and what the firm might have to do if the Blackberry service does, in fact, get shut down. The agreement was that we’d end up blowing a big chunk of IS budget rolling out Windows Mobile devices. One…

  • Watching your mouth

    Lots of ideas floating around this weekend in the podcasts I was listening to surrounding the idea of what you say about the users you support. It all started with Douglas Welch’s podcast “Don’t Say It” where he talks about the possible consequences of getting not only getting caught “user bashing” but also the negative…