A Not Quite Bedtime Story…

Well, my children, it is time for a bedtime story.  Let me tell you a tale of a man responsible for a computer network consisting of four machines, three printers and other small odds and ends.  One of the machines is a server, two machines are desktops and the last machine is a laptop.  The laptop is used primarily by my Most Significant Other.  Now, let me be honest.  The laptop started out as my machine, but somehow over the last 18 months I’ve lost control of it and despite my protest, she doesn’t consider it mine anymore.

 

I’m Just a Teenager with a Lot of Money…

This was my weekend to fend off the tech challenges I’d been avoiding for almost a week. And as Stewie of “Family Guy” would say, “Victory was mine.”

 

– Installed Service Pack 2 for Office 2007. First of all, it weights in at over 300 megs (and no, that was not a typo. It was 300 megs). Second of all, I love it. Outlook and Word load and close noticeably faster. Without broadband, I wouldn’t even consider downloading this important update.

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– Some will call me lazy, but I have always opted for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser vice using a third party browser.  Yes, I know I could use something else, but there really is no compelling reason for me to switch. Having said that, I installed the new MS IE8 on all of my machines except the server late last week.  Friday, the server notified me via a red icon on my desktop that it had an important update for me to install. I said “do it” and the server installed what turned out to be the IE8 update for 2003 server. No biggie, right? Wrong! Turns out IE8 broke one of my best server add-ins, Advance Admin Console (AAC).

On Being Right…

On April 17th, 2009, I made a prediction in my post, Assuming Malice, as to how I thought…

Sundry Items

- Well, sometimes fate laughs at me. Not with a snicker, mind you, but with an out and…

About Assuming Malice

In May 1987, former Secretary of Labor, Raymond J. Donovan, who had been indicted by a New York grand jury of larceny and fraud, but later acquitted, stood on the courthouse steps and  famously asked, “Which office do I go to get my reputation back?”  As Mr. Donovan learned, the indictment charges are always on page one, the verdict of innocence will be found on page four. In the age of internet speed, guilt is always assumed before innocence. Sadly, it’s just the world we live in.

 

One of the many life lessons I learned at an early age stemmed from a quotation that appeared in Robert A. Heinlein‘s 1941 short story “Logic of Empire.” The quote: ‘You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity’ has often been re-quoted as “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

 

Within the past week, two companies, Amazon and Dominos Pizza, have come under scrutiny (maybe attack is a better word) for failing what I lovingly call Business Perceptions 101. What, might you ask is Business Perception 101? BP 101, for short, is when a company’s

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