This is one of the photos I got while Angela and I were exploring Dawes Arboretum this afternoon. It was a sunny, albeit slightly windy, day and we took advantage of the weather to get out and spend some time with nature. Spending the afternoon here was a great way to spend time together, get…
Apparently, putting IE7 as a Technorati tag attracts the attention of someone from ieproviders.com, who leaves comments about the search providers you can plug into the search bar in IE7 even when that particular post has nothing to do with searching. So I’m giving them the attention they crave over there, by exposing them. 🙂…
For all you user-support folks out there, here’s a question for discussion. We all know that keeping the lines of communication open between users and IT staff is an important part of any tech support operation. If people are afraid to come to you with questions, that’s bad for everyone involved. Sometimes that means saying…
Are extensions the killer feature in Firefox? Absolutely. I’ve used IE7 a bit. It’s slow, but sometimes Firefox is too. It has tabs, it’s relatively secure compared to IE6, it has a pop-up blocker built in, it has pretty decent cookie and password management built in. In a nutshell, it has many of the same…
When I agreed to do that segment with Kevin Devin from In the Trenches, he sent me a list of possible questions, so I would have a pretty good idea of what he was looking for. There were a number of those questions that I wanted to answer, and take advantage of the opportunity to…
The latest edition of In The Treches has a few minutes of discussion between Kevin and your’s truly about working at the helpdesk and my own experiences working in the field. Go give it a listen, especially if you’ve never listened to Kevin and George before. They do an excellent podcast! Tags: InTheTrenches