Author: Mike McBride

  • A note to end users

    Now, normally the things I write about here are for other IT folks, sharing information, commiserating about work, or software companies, stuff like that. Today, however, I want to take a moment to talk to the end users and offer up some advice. Now I offer this advice for a very simple reason. When other…

  • Trillian funkiness

    I’ve been having on and off problems connecting to Yahoo using Trillian, looks like maybe Yahoo is playing games with trillian users now. I’ve had to switch to different servers twice in the last 3 days, and I’m not holding out much hope that this is going to stop. There’s more in the trillian forums…

  • Lockergnome

    I said earlier that I was reserving judgement on the new Lockergnome layouts and things until after I’ve used them for awhile, and I intend to do just that. However, one thing that is irritating me (And today, everything is irritating me, so maybe it’s just my mood.) is that the RSS feed for the…

  • De-Spam

    I’ve already spent a good 30-45 minutes going through all the spam that my boss collected over the weekend. She seems to get more than most folks here, or at least seems more irritated by it, so I tried to go through it all and come up with some Outlook rules that will make things…