That’s what my coworkers gave me today, when I told them of my after-work plans. I was making a trip over to my former employer’s to interview the consultant they are considering using to replace me as their emergency technical contact. Since they don’t have any IT people on staff, they needed me to meet…
In the comments to a previous post I mentioned wanting to have a way for my wife to be able to see my calendar, which I normally keep in Outlook on my laptop. I knew I could publish to the web, but since I only want her to see it that would require setting up…
I saw this post titled Living the Observed Life, and thought it was an interesting idea. You should go read it too, and follow all the links. It’s true that no one expects to be sued, I certainly don’t. On the other hand, at my previous job as the IT guy, I did have to…
I actually meant to blog this awhile ago, but I have a question. Is there some level of geekdom that’s passed when your wife sends you an email, in which she has a small list of chores that require your attention and she ends with the instruction to make sure you add said list to…
The other day I saw a PC that had been completely overrun with trojans, virii, and spyware. I won’t say where I saw this particular PC, but suffice it to say it had all the appropriate software installed originally to keep this from happening. However, after cleaning up the trojan that had the AV disabled,…
Picked up this story at Download Squad the other day, about a Firefox Extension that will run an Internet Explorer engine inside one of your Firefox tabs. This is kinda cool if, like me, you work some place that uses Outlook Web Access, which runs much smoother in IE, or has an intranet site that…