That’s the thing about working in IT, every once in awhile, you get to see something go wrong, and say “I have no idea why that just happened”. Today it was an SMTP change implemented by the place that acts as our ISP. I keep a completely seperate account in Outlook on my work desktop,…
Matthew from Firetrust was kind enough to send me a free copy of the new, pro version of Mailwasher a while back. The program has gotten better, added some serious features, and still gives you all the fun of bouncing spam back to the sender. (Of course, the actual value of that is still open…
I think the email outage is over, I just got an email that was sent Monday night from my brother, who lives in town. He could have snail mailed it faster. Heck he could have driven to my house and told me faster! Good thing it wasn’t too important! I’m not sure exactly what happened,…
Comments are broken , email to my domains is broken, etc. Site’s still here, so that’s something at least. I’m sure the host will be working on it and have it working again soon, in the meantime, if you need to reach me think Gmail. (mike.mcbride) Tags: broken
Among the many news items coming out of Gnomedex last week, I saw an announcement of a public preview for a new Outlook-based RSS reader, Attensa. So being ever so curious, I downloaded it this weekend. It’s actually not bad. It supports importing OPML, is pretty customizable, allows you to publish items to your blog…
Last night I listened to the latest In the Trenches podcast. Kevin and his guest, Chuck Tomasi were discussing a number of issues that I feel strongly about, and have been reminded of recently in my own workplace. They were talking about the image you, as an IT person, project to the people you support…