• Another Consulting company I will never work for

    in 2004-2005, when I was looking for a job, I heard from a number of IT consulting companies, and unfortunately, most of them turned out to be companies I would never work for. Between the ones that lied to me about jobs, or lied about my qualifications to companies, to the one’s who called my house…

  • Audio master

    One of the things I absolutely love about my job, is that there’s always something new to learn, or to tinker with, in order to solve a problem. Today, it was audio. You see, a couple of days ago, I was charged with finding a solution for someone who wanted to record day-long meetings. It…

  • Coupon Code

    Speaking of Friends in Tech resources, here’s one for you. Steve Holden from Tech News Radio managed to get a code for $10 off SCOTTEVEST (SeV) Long-sleeved Performance T-shirt for iPod/PDA/Cell. In fact, there’s even a forum now dedicated to posting just these sorts of deals for listeners/readers of Friends in Tech members, so you…

  • Little Projects

    I’ve been keeping busy with some little projects, things like adding the Friends in Tech logo to the top of the page, to officially “flag” myself as a member of that group as well as thinking about ways to leverage the group resources there to benefit the readers here and visa versa, or adding Google…

  • Some days you just can’t win

    The other day at work I spent quite a lot of time troubleshooting an issue with Acrobat Reader 7 and the plug-in that adds integration with our document management system, Interwoven’s Worksite. After much trial and error I figured out that even with the plug-in installed to the proper folder, the integration would disappear every…

  • Playing dress up

    Angela’s got proof that I do wear a suit and tie every now and then. (Although her description of “dapper” might be a tad biased.) She’s actually got a couple of pics that we took before we headed out to my office’s social event last night, a fun evening of drinking, dinner and dancing. Unfortunately,…