One of the most valuable lessons I have learned in IT I learned from one of our network guys at the time. I had misdiagnosed an issue as a “network problem,” a term which is a catch-all used by noobs and vendors to say that they don’t know what the problem is. Chris, the network …
Category: I.T.
Sep 15
One of my favorite gifts
This is the front of my Mac at work. The attached clipping is from a Pearls Before Swine comic that was clipped out and given to me by my wife. This is one of my favorite things that I have received—not because of its intrinsic value—but because of what it represents. At work I am …
Sep 06
Quotable: John Moltz
“As for the Surface, Microsoft was forced to write off its unsold inventory to the tune of $900 million, which is a really lousy song. Like Coldplay, Nickelback, and Creed all got together and collaborated on a song.” –from his MacWorld article on device philosophy
Jun 25
Overheard: 35 yr old female
“I’m trying to watch a webinar and I don’t know if I have the right whatever thingy.”
Jun 19
Review: NoteMaster
NoteMaster is a note-taking app for iOS. I switched to it after trying out various note-taking apps, and not really loving any of them. I love this app. I had been using Apple’s native Notes app for years, but I was running into limitations–there was no way to do bold, indent, make bulleted lists, and …
May 09
Voltron Tech Support: Episode #1
Chat Screen: Steve: They just wouldn’t listen. Dave: I know, right? Incoming Call: Nancy Chat Screen: Dave: Carp, it’s Nancy. BRB Call Log: Dave: Voltron Tech Support, this is Dave, how can I help you? Nancy: My lion won’t work. Dave: Excuse me? Nancy: My lion won’t work and I need it working right now. …
Apr 14
Beats me
If you call someone because you require assistance with something, they may need some information from you. If your response to said inquiry is, ‘beats me,’ that is very rude–you should not be surprised if they in turn are rude to you–or if they do in fact beat you–because you deserve it. You wouldn’t accept such …
Feb 27
Warning: WD Caviar Blue 500GB
Where I work we have a lot of computers that have Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GBhard drives–and we are getting a lot of drive failures. If you have one of these drives in your computer, you need to back your data and/or get a new hard drive as soon as possible. I will show you …
Feb 21
That’s a nice case
I’m on my third iPhone now, all second-hand, all purchased or traded for. My first was an iPhone 3G, which was great, though it was a little slow, partly due to having to jailbreak it. Then I picked up a 3GS, which was way faster. Now I have an iPhone 4S. The best analogy I …
