Posted in Software Review, Technology on Jun 13th, 2008 No Comments »
FireFox 3 is coming and I hope that it is all that it promises to be. Why am I not jumping for joy? See my earlier post about what FF has been doing on my (many) computers of late. In the hopes that FF will return to it’s once glorified existance, please check out the [...]
Posted in Technology, Technology Training, Work on Feb 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
Lately, I’ve been heading up the marketing effort for our IT department, at least you could call it that. In a time when we are severely lacking manpower our task lists are, of course, at an all time high. So, in an effort to reach as many people as possible with information about the services [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
So, what is your computer doing for you right now? As I write this, mine is performing the following;
Streaming the super bowl from my PVR.
Burning a music CD from my music library on my home network.
Editing a Google doc.
Writing this blog post.
Running Twhirl (2 accounts) so I can keep up with others watching the game.
Running [...]
Posted in Technology, Work on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I have a friend that was recently asked what he thought about splitting up his IT staff across the geographical expanse of his organization. This would, he was told, place IT staff in key locations to be able to assist other staff with issues in a more expedient fashion. Interesting concept, here is the real [...]
Posted in Society, Technology on Dec 20th, 2007 No Comments »
If you need evidence that social networking works, all you have to do is look at what happened to me today. For no other reason than wishing to help someone out that I didn’t even know, I ended up leading an on-line meeting about Moodle. The people that attended were from universities spread across the [...]
Posted in Society, Technology on Aug 1st, 2007 No Comments »
As I write this I am listening to The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman on my Sansa. I borrowed the audio book from the library and ripped the CD’s to MP3’s so I could be more portable.
For those of you that think this is wrong, don’t worry. This is for my own use only. [...]
