Sticking to Your Guns

If there’s one thing my mom taught me, it would be, stick to your guns.  Once you make a decision see it through to the end come hell or high water.  From the Free Dictionary the title of this post is an idiom based on the military meaning of stick to your guns ( to [...]

Tech Support Idiocracies #3

Fail, incompetence, blonds and cows.  These are a few of my favorite things to hate.  Coincidentally, these words can also be used to very accurately describe an individual I work with.  Combined, she is the epitomy of the word ‘nightmare’.  I’ve blogged about her before, she’s a problem user, she’s incompetent, she’s blond, she’s an [...]

The Curse of the Laptop

We have a bizarre occurrence at work that is worth mentioning. It’s really strange and it’s got to the point where we can start to place fairly accurate bets as to its result. What I mean is this, when we upgrade users from desktops to laptops there’s a very high chance that within [...]

Living a Web 2.0 Life in a Web 1.0 World

When everything on the web is shifting towards a highly integrated medium where information seamlessly inter-operates across platforms, architectures and languages why is it that back at home, in the sad old real world, the pace of change is slower than it should be.
Why are people slow to adopt the philosophy that there’s always a [...]