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I’ve lived through so many of these things. <sigh> The 11th reason is that if you’re sitting at the front desk doing something to the computer, anyone who walks in the door assumes you are the receptionist. It’s funny, when I was CIO at a 550 person company and then Director of Technology at a […]

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 […]

 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 […]

Once again I went down a rabbit hole on the Internet.  Eventually I ended up at http://www.actsofgord.com and read about a video game store owner’s experiences…  Many of those revolved around being sued, or suing people…   Here’s the great quote: "I remember a happier time when people used to threaten to sue because they were in […]

Miguel Castro tagged me for this. Thanks buddy. Allrighty, let’s see here… #1 – I was born in The Netherlands. My father was apparently a VIP at Citicorp in the 60’s and he traveled the world for them. I popped out when he and mom were in The Netherlands. #2 – I was kidnapped when […]

I swear, this site isn’t supposed to be "all complaining, all the time", but poor customer service seems to follow me around these days.   Due to some problems with sending faxes over a VOIP solution (Vonage, I’m looking at you), we’ve decided to add a "normal" phone line to our residence.  Being the 21st […]