I just spent somewhere in the vicinity of 20 minutes trying to help one of our users understand something. You see, while this particular individual is a relative genius when it comes to working in his field, he has very little knowledge of technology and the simplest PC tasks are often very difficult for him…
I’ve done two conference call/webinar type of things in the last two days. You know the kind of thing where you call into a conference call, then listen and watch on the web as a vendor does a presentation of their new product. Well in both of these events there were a small handful of…
In response to some of the comments on the post below: Marc wonders what my platform would be, he suggests “Two PC’s in every house”. I’m thinking more along the lines of “What do I look like, Santa Claus? Get a job and buy your own stuff!”It’s not exactly the “caring” platform, but you know…
Already this morning I’ve sat through a staff meeting, helped unload stuff from last week’s event, which included hooking a printer back up that had been out there, checked the weekend backups, and read through my emails. Still to do are some accounting reports, an update to our website database, a conference call with a…
With the problems that YACCS has been having, I finally decided that enough was enough and switched Angela’s blog over to a local commenting system, hosted on my domain. Everything worked out fine except, for some reason, she’s not getting the automatic emails that are generated when someone leaves a comment. I have it setup…
If you use My Yahoo! and want to use it as a news aggregator you can just click Add to My Yahoo! and start it up. It’s nowhere near as flexible as other aggregators but it requires no downloading or installation. Maybe it’s a step toward more wide-spread use of RSS? (link via Library Stuff)