Saw this post today and it set off some random thoughts in my head, so being the self-absorbed blogging type, you get to read them. Blocking Access to Web sites at Work Could Backfire It seems that a recent study is showing that people who work for companies that block a lot of access to…
Steven Vore sent me this link about what Thomas Stromberg found on a computer that was sitting out for the trash after he took it home to see if he could salvage any parts from it. Buying a computer for your bustling property management company in 1998: $500 City of Roswell Garbage Pickup Cost: $22/mo…
I saw a post by Jennifer Leggio today about locating network security folks on Twitter, and I wondered how many people who work in the legal technology field are using twitter or other social networking apps. In fact, following Jennifer on Twitter also helped me discover Twitterpaks, which is a wiki setup to encourage new…
Earlier today I had a random thought about Time Warner’s plans to test out tiered pricing for bandwidth. I started thinking about all those people who would be keeping track of their bandwidth usage on a daily basis, making sure they never went over the limit and had to pay extra charges for it. These…
I didn’t even realize you couldn’t use more than one signature in a message in Outlook 2007. I use that feature quite often for boilerplate messages at work, but we’re still using 2003 there. Thankfully, the latest edition of WinXP News has the way to continue to do this in Outlook 2007. How to get…
The latest issue of Tech Support Alert comes with some handy sites to bookmark. On one hand, they link to a couple of sites that allow you to check any downloaded files for malware using a number of anti-virus scanners at once before you run them: [1] http://virusscan.jotti.org/[2] http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html They also link to a site…