Management

  • Not today…

    Naturally when I arrived in the office this morning, my own website was down, email servers and everything. Not a good way to start the day, but about 30 minutes later it seems to be back in working order again. Whew! I did, yesterday, get the old comments exported from YACCS and after some clean…

  • Decisions, decisions

    I’m spending a goodly part of my morning, in between frantic phone calls from my wife, who’s work Mac has lost the ability to open Pagemaker on the same day that their newspaper is due to the printer (she’s uninstalling/reinstalling Pagemaker now, I think. Keep your fingers crossed), going over the seminar schedule for the…

  • Intel’s new chips

    Courtesy of John Robb comes this article about Intel putting in some security measures in their new chips, due next year. John’s response: “Intel to include copy protection functionality in new chips. I personally won’t ever buy a chip with type of stuff on it. Unless there is an alternative, my aggressive upgrade cycle has…

  • A question

    Erik Noble wonders if I really hate my job, and if so, why I’m still here. He is correct in his assumption that the reasons I’m still here are financial. I’m getting close to having been here 5 years, and those of you with pensions funds know what 5 years means. Fully vested! So there’s…

  • Morning news

    Josh points out a Register article that takes a look at the EULA for Win2000 Service Pack 3. The wording is enough to give you pause, I would think. Jevon and Geek are both pointing to this story about Activebuddy’s patent win. I’m not a programmer, so I don’t know for sure, but I’m fairly…

  • In the news

    First off, the landlord called again this morning. They found where the check had been deposited, their mistake. *huge sigh of relief* An Open Offer to Utah State IT Employees -this is a good idea, let your people create blogs and share knowledge with each other, or even outside their organization. I’ve suggested the same…