One of our attorneys asked me an interesting question the other day. Actually, the question was as interesting as the tone of her voice. It seems that she has recently purchased a brand new laptop with Vista/Office 2007 on it. She was sharing this information with me when she suddenly got this very frightened look…
I like Twitteroo for my Windows laptop, and while I’ve seen some Linux tools, I hadn’t quite gotten around to getting any of them yet. On the other hand, after seeing something on Twitter from Kevin Devin about Tweetbar, I took a look at that, and lo and behold, why bother installing software when I…
I was listening to the latest Manager Tools podcast at lunch today. They’ve talked about the importance of writing thank you notes before, but today’s podcast was entirely on that topic. In true Manager Tools style, not only did I learn how important the act of sending thank you notes is, both professionally and personally,…
In terms of the number of views of any of my Flickr photos, I never thought anything would top the pic of the OSU Cheerleaders. I mean from the day I first posted in, views just took off and it had been far ahead of any of my other photos. I figured you know, cheerleaders…
I’ve mentioned before why I think measuring the effectiveness of your help desk folks by looking at the number of tickets they work alone is dumb. This week, I had a perfect example. We had one of our pool laptops lose a hard drive this week. The replacement drive came in Thursday late in the…
We frequently do business with a firm that prepares reports for us, stuff like environmental impact studies, etc. that they in turn make available to us for download from their website. Since the clients want us to send them a CD copy of the report, and since most of our users don’t have CD burners,…