Data

  • Staffing chaos

    Yes, it does seem like this sort of thing just happens once every six month or so, but we have a nice little perfect storm brewing up here in the office. One of our staff of 23 had a baby yesterday. Yeah for her! She’ll be on maternity leave, we may be getting a temp…

  • IT and Productivity

    Thinking Faster has some thoughts on why technology doesn’t make business as productive as it should be. Some snippets (But read the whole thing!): “I have been in the bowels of the beast, and I think I can say fairly definitively that very few people receive the information they need from the systems they have….

  • OpenOffice

    A couple of year’s ago I checked out the Open Office suite in an attempt to see if it would work for everyday use. The big draw back at that time, and still today, was the lack of a database component comparable to Access. I use Access a lot in my job, since it’s part…

  • Annual Review

    Yesterday was time for my annual review. One of the topics up for discussion was that this year the entire organization is going to be asked to come up with disaster recovery strategies. Now as far as our data goes, I’ve had a disaster recovery plan in place for a number of years, although it’s…

  • IT and the free lunch

    I know I promised you all over the weekend that I’d have more to say about some of the topics that came up in the Tech Chat over the weekend, but, obviously, this week has not gone as planned. So, here’s my attempt at making amends. First off, let me point out something about myself….