• I hate when that happens

    Don’t you just love opening up Outlook over the weekend and discovering that some used your domain as a “from” address whilst spamming and now you’re left to deal with all the bounce-backs? There’s really nothing like watching the Inbox count go all the way up to almost 300, and then watch as SpamBayes identifies…

  • Working remotely

    I was working out of our new remote office today. Our CIO, along with some others, came up with the idea to try and make sure we have IT face-time with the folks in this office at least once a week for the first few months since it’s opening and this week it was my…

  • WMF

    I’m trying to come up with a creative use for the acronym WMF, but they all wind up something that wouldn’t be exactly G-rated. It’s that MF at the end, it’s too easy… Anyway, we were full on trying to get things secured against the WMF exploit in the office today. Our network folks threw…

  • It’s 2006!

    Hard to believe another year has passed. So many things have changed that it’s hard to imagine what I was doing last year at this time was only a year ago, but at the same time, it’s also hard to believe this is the 5th new year I’ve welcomed in with my wife since our…

  • Annual reviews

    This post over at the Friends in Tech forum brought back a lot of memories, especially Douglas’ response, because he really gives some insight into the real meaning of those kinds of comments from users. In the 7 annual reviews I went through at my old job, years 2,3 and 4 all included that sort…