Much to the chagrin of my geeky side, yesterday while trying to figure out how to remotely check messages on our new answering machine, I accidentally erased the greeting instead of the message and had to record a new one. I recorded a new one, but in the course of telling Angela about this little…
As someone who still works with NT 4.0 servers in my professional life, I wasn’t thrilled when MS didn’t come up with a patch for an RPC vulnerability. On the other hand, I already have our NT 4.0 server behind a firewall with port 135 blocked, so it’s really not that big a deal. I…
There’s going to be a war in my office, specifically on the floor I work on, and it’s going to be over the coffee maker. I do not understand how grown adults can think it’s ok to spill coffee down the counter and into little puddles on the floor and walk away from it. (That’s…
For those of you following along in the comments, there probably is something to the fact that Angela and I had our first date on April Fool’s Day. It says that we have a lot of fun together and have a sense of humor about life. Or something like that…
OpenOffice 1.1 released. I tried out 1.0 way back when and found it to pretty useful in some situations. Unfortunately I couldn’t really replace Office with it because so much of what I do is in Access and Open Office doesn’t have a database component, relying instead on a somewhat difficult to configure interface with…
Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 To Manufacturing. Hmm, I think I’ll have to keep an eye on how this works out for early adopters, if I can find any. 🙂 If nothing else, it would be nice to grab a demo copy of this and see how it works for myself. I’ll have to settle…