fighting the lack of good ideas
…will be to eliminate the TSA. I was in Chicago this week for work, and on my way back the TSA gerbil found a knife in my briefcase. The same briefcase that made it through RDU without anyone noticing a knife. When I am elected president in 2016 the first thing to go will be…
I use Google’s free mail service. And each account gets the privilege of having over 6 gigabytes of storage, if needed. However, I don’t use anywhere near that much. I go through my old email about once a month and delete stuff I no longer need. For example, I’m on the TriLUG mailing list. But…
Discovery News reports that squirrels network like Facebook users. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that Facebook is a heluva lot newer than squirrels. Shouldn’t the comparison be that Facebook users network like squirrels do? I could see being accommodating to modern society and not compare Facebook networking, to, say… how…
As with knowledge capture, so must any successful organization pursue training. Training need not be formal. It can be self-paced, on-the-job, as-you-go, or formal. I know that I have learned the most about the product I support not from formal training, but from actually supporting it. Part of that is because we have had a…
I have recently been preparing to change jobs within my company from Support to Professional Services. This has lots of caveats, concerns, and corners to shine light into, alleviate, and circumvent. The first thing that I did when I found out that I would, in fact, be able to move to ProServe from Support was…
…or, more accurately, the apartment complex. I was talking to a couple friends this past weekend, and told them I’d like to offer a per-minute lease on an apartment. It turns out that $0.02 per minute is $864/30-day month. For another penny a minute I’d include all utilities. Ok, so it’s a little off the…
Yes, the frozen, white, flaky water that falls from the skies and accumulates on the ground. It’s snowing here in Durham, and I’m psyched. As a coworker said, “Snow is redneck kryptonite”. /me loves being from the north 🙂