Kevin Devin posted something today about his workplace, wondering if the snake of Corporate IT was eating it’s own tail. When I read his story, one part jumped out at me immediately. Here was a classic example of tech support folks not having the authority, or tools, to correct a problem for a user. If…
Remember that big honking new machine I have at work? Well we needed to find something to copy 14GB of data to DVD today, and I noticed that the Roxio Creator Plus -Dell Edition that came with it actually had an option to do disc spanning, so I clicked it. Then I went and added…
Yesterday was the Centennial Celebration for the Main Library downtown here in Columbus. It was a free, community event partially sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Since we needed some stuff to talk about on the website, I volunteered to spend the day taking photos. (I had volunteered to do that well before I…
Just finished upgrading my home desktop to Ubuntu 7.04. So far, so good. Now I’ve just got to do some research and figure out what’s new. Any of you Ubuntu fans want to point me in the direction of what’s new and cool in Fiesty? I’m looking forward to digging into it some more, but…
I was doing a video capture through the firewire port of my new work machine this morning when I remembered that I hadn’t blog about it yet. Given all the resource-demanding work I’ll be doing, stuff like video capture/editing, drive imaging, etc., I really needed a beefed-up machine for it. So we spec’d out a…
I got a question the other day about whether this blog helped me get my new job. It was an interesting question, because I hadn’t really thought about it. The job was an internal post, so the concept of someone finding my blog and using it to evaluate what I know about technology, obviously, wasn’t…