It’s the second annual edition of the Server Room of Horrors from Friends in Tech. I was impressed with last year’s special, but having had the opportunity to record a few lines for this one and see how much hard work goes into putting all of this together, I have a whole new respect for how…
Like I didn’t have enough to do after spending 5-days almost entirely disconnected from the Internet, and having work projects pile up on me while we were gone, when I finally did connect my laptop to the Internet this morning, I was prompted about version 7.5 of Grisoft’s free anti-virus tool, and informed that the…
It really has. There’s just been so much going on at work, and outside work with doctor visits (nothing serious, no worries), board meetings, website updates, etc. But now we’re off the Vegas for 5 days of forgetting that I even have a job! I’m taking the laptop though, taking lots of photos, and I…
It’s one of the areas of working in IT, specifically on the helpdesk, that no one ever prepares you for. They don’t cover it in the tech magazines, they don’t talk about it on tech podcasts, and you don’t hear much about it when you’re training for your career, but at some point, you will…
I got an email over the weekend from Jacob Rheuban, one of the founders of a new news aggregation site called Newgie. The site promises to be a smarter news portal and RSS feed directory. From their press release: Newgie co-founders Jason Windebank (29) and Jacob Rheuban (29) began work on the new product six months ago…
There’s one less laptop in our pool this week, at least for now. It seems this particular laptop was a victim of a miracle. It was in a padded laptop case, just stuck in a car, and somehow the front of it (all the way across the base) got cracked and the touchpad doesn’t work. It’s truly…