Author: Mike McBride

  • Migraine inducing

    Things like this are why I think IT people consume more aspirin and migraine medicine than the average person. It’s probably why we cuss more too! I wonder though, now that my educational efforts are apparently doing more harm than good, should I just stop? No more virus warnings no hoax warnings, just leave them…

  • How bad is it?

    I had another post written up here about work today, but then I realized that some of the information in it hadn’t been made public knowledge yet. While no one I work with reads this blog, outside of my wife, and I don’t give out the name of the place I work, there is still…

  • Andy Rooney?

    My wife, after reading that last post, came to me last night and said “That was a little too Andy Rooney for my tastes, what happened to my husband?”. Ouch! OK, I admit it, I’ve been taking life a little too fucking seriously. Time to crank up a Too Much Joy CD and remember that…

  • About that patch

    Re: The IE patch. According to Brian’s comment , the IE patch for version 5.X doesn’t actually fix one of the vulnerabilities. As well, Chris mentions that the patch may break Pane views in Outlook 2000 & 2002. Which just goes to prove my theory that anything MS or any other company releases should be…