I overheard, not in the literal sense but secondhand, an IT professional lamenting the lack of media coverage about the Daylight Savings time switch and the possible affect on computer systems. Apparently, in cases like this, he likes to send an alert to the folks he supports and send them a link to CNN or…
So my boss got the go ahead to order some training materials so that he and I can both become Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technicians. It’s not exactly the certification that I’ve been dreaming about or anything, but if they’re willing to fork up the money for self-paced training materials and testing fees, who am…
As most of you know, I love OneNote, I love my GTD TiddlyWiki, I simply love tools that help keep you organized, and on top of things. Given that, I was quite intrigued by a post I ran across from Stowe Boyd about the announcement of Zoho Notebook. This might warrant keeping an eye on,…
Phil Gerbyshak E-mailed me a number of questions about working at a help desk, and is posting the interview as a series over on Help Desk Notes. Part 1 went up last night, I’ll update this post with links to the other parts as he gets them posted. (Part 2 is up, as well as…
Awhile back, I linked to the Power of Together thing that Microsoft was doing, where you could get a free copy of Office 2007 and/or Vista in exchange for watching some videos and web demo’s. I got my Product Key for Office 2007 in the mail today, so naturally I was off to download it….
We had the opportunity today to go check out an exhibit of about 15-20 of the photographs from the Joel Meyerowitz’s book of photos Aftermath WTC Archive. Looking at some of these photos in the large format was quite moving. If you’re in the area of Otterbein College in the next couple of weeks, you…