A few days ago, shortly after replacing the hard drive in my notebook (upgraded to 200gig at 7200 RPM, woohoo!) Word 2007 no longer worked well for me. The first symptom I noticed was that when I clicked on the X in the upper right of the window to close the app, it would crash…
Two features that I’d really like to see: 1) Notification email when someone posts a reply to a blog posting. I’ve missed responding in a timely manner to the last two people to reply to my blog. Sorry Joe and Jeff! 2) The feature in Live Spaces that adds grammatical and spelling errors to my…
Last night I had the pleasure of sitting in on Russ’ presentation called "It’s All About The Tools – Episode 1". I’ve sat in on a couple of Russ’ presentations and always enjoyed them, and last night was no exception. He opened the session saying that one of the reasons he does them is because…
Apple has been on one heck of a resurgence over the past several years. Starting with the candy colored iMac’s, through the iPod to today’s iPhone and other Apple products, they have been delivering the goods in the consumer / home electronics space, with only the rare misfire (Cube anyone?). Recently however, my experience with…
Today, after returning from being on the road for 11 hours visiting clients and prospects, Deb plugged her iPhone into her PC (running XP), and without thinking, said Yes to installing the latest iTunes & iPhone update. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, the update didn’t work. It basically bricked her iPhone. I figured…
I tell you, some days I love Vista and on others, well not so much. One feature that seems cool but doesn’t really prove useful is the Flip 3D feature. Apple has one on their system that makes a lot more sense – press a button (or squeeze the side buttons on the Mighty…
Okay, so I didn’t do much of anything on my 40th, which was nice (except for the client who kept calling about unimportant stuff no many how many times I told them I was taking the day off unless it was an emergency). The one thing I wanted to do was to get to…
I’ve been using Vista on my desktop since it was officially released at the consumer level. I didn’t blog about it, but my upgrade on my desktop workstation did not go well. Generally, unless you have a large IT department doing the work, my advice is get Vista with a new machine. Yesterday I caved and…
The (in)famous Ted Pattison has just announced that The Ted Pattison Group will be hosting a new training class for Sharepoint 2007, starting August 27th. This class will focus on creating solutions in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, without using programming. See the details at: http://tedpattison.net/Courses/SSE301.aspx. I’ve been to Ted’s training and found it very helpful. …
When I say "in your hard drive", I mean that quite literally. We are destroying some drives for a medical customer. Since we do not have the proper SCSI card to actually connect the drives, we’ve decided to physically destroy the drives. One of them had a stripped screw, and we ended up folding back…