The other night, I told you about iTunes crashing, and 17 song files going “poof”. It was weird, but since I had a pretty recent backup of my music files on an external drive, I didn’t worry too much about it. The next time I cranked up the PC, however, I was greeted with the…
It never fails that something stupid happens right before you need to leave. I need to get to sleep, and I plugged in my iPod to sync, and itunes crashed, apparently taking 17 songs along with it. The MP3’s no longer exist. I’ll have to pull the files off my backup, external, drive, but not…
Linda Marie: First and foremost, if you do not have people skills, you should not look for a help desk position. That’s absolutely true. The other thing that IT people at all levels tend to forget is what their role in any organization is. There’s a certain amount of power that goes with operating any technology infrastructure,…
You may recall a while back I talked about G.ho.st the online Virtual Machine project. I haven’t gone back to look at it again in some time, but I got an email from them today, and given the new features, I may have to take a look very soon: As part of our continuous efforts…
Neville Hobson posted something interesting over the weekend, and Shel Holtz added some further thoughts to the discussion today, about the number of companies who have simply blocked access to Facebook and other social networking sites. I think they cover some of the objections to this pretty clearly, but I want to focus on a…
I’m sure many of you have taken a peek at the blog over the last 24 hours or so and seen some different things appearing. I’ve moved ahead with a complete overall of the site. As I’ve discussed previously, with the new professional position, it was time to retire the name, and I’ve decided to…