Month: November 2007

10 Reasons It Doesn’t Pay To Be “The Computer Guy”

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 […]

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Is Word 2007 suddenly not working properly for you?

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 […]

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Features that Windows Live Spaces needs

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 […]

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It’s all about the tools… Russ Fustino’s developer tools presentation

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 […]

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Has Apple lost their touch?

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 […]

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