I’ve had these sorts of conversations before, but in a smaller company, like everything else, it’s usually not as frequent an occurrence as it is now. Anyone who’s worked supporting users knows exactly the sort of conversation, and while we all appreciate the fact that the user is curious and wants to learn, we all…
This looks interesting: We’re calling it Dabble, with emphasis on the Db: it’s a database system for dabblers. We’d naturally be happy if professional developers, DBAs, and business analysts find our system useful, but we won’t be satisfied until we have something that works for everyone in the millions of small businesses and teams for…
I installed Miranda IM the other day. I liked the fact that I could connect with Google Talk, which I can’t do with the free version of Trillian, but I wasn’t realy excited about the fact that there’s no voice features, which would be kinds nice to have with GoogleTalk. I also just didn’t like…
Yup, it’s official, I’m a winner, despite all the “loser” talk. As part of Chuck Chat Technorama show #50 they had a drawing for some donated prizes and I was the winner of a free copy of the new Podcasting book by Todd Cochrane, of Geek News Central fame. I’m looking forward to reading the…
All taken from the latest issue of Tech Support Alert and posted here so I remember to look at them more closely later: File Extensions ExplainedOpen Source Alternative to MS ExchangeEthernet Cable Tester for $5.95Miranda IM By the way, if you’re not getting this newsletter and you work with desktop PC’s, you should be. Tags:…
Just put up pictures from the weekend in Dayton on Finnegan’s blog. We had a good time checking out both the Air Force Museum and the Egyptian exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute. The week got off to a crazy start after that though. We have 3 helpdesk people and aside from taking all the…