I’m no stranger to getting things done in spite of being depressed. Look, even before the pandemic, life could get pretty hard sometimes. I mean, with brutal schedules and lack of staffing that’s been frankly endemic to corporate IT, which … Continued
Or, things I’d want to know before I seriously applied for, or took a new job. The other day, a recruiter emailed me a super vague job description and we had a brief exchange about it. It was a little … Continued
Not quite DIY DevOps for Office 365, but a good start. So, it’s been a while since I posted professional geek content on any of my blogs, so I figure I’m overdue. I’ve had a lot of titles over the … Continued
I’m anything but a professional programmer, but occasionally, I make stuff. Sometimes, in my day job, I have to solve a particular problem and the only way I can manage that is via some small bit of programming. Usually, it’s … Continued
Everyone’s IT budgets are shrinking this year, and probably next year, too. This isn’t the first time I’ve been through a down-turn in the economy. And, every single time, no matter what the industry I’m in, IT and software purchases … Continued
Because, that’s who I really am. So, this week I was going to write about the error message I’ve seen filling up my logs which is due to some issue in the AuthorWrite theme I use here. But, thanks to … Continued
Feeling a little trapped? Me, too. So, I usually have a theme to these Friday posts, but even I have to admit they’ve gotten pretty thin lately. And, while I’ve started working some days back in the office, I’m still … Continued
In these troubled times, we’re all talking about the same thing in the same way. I know the isolation is getting rough for all of us and it’s definitely giving me more days where I feel like my brain has … Continued
I am my own white noise generator, thanks to tinnitus from too many years working in server rooms. Seriously, you have no idea, if you don’t suffer from tinnitus, just how distracting omnipresent sound in your ears can be sometimes. … Continued
Some reboots are better than others. Sometimes, I talk about really geeky things here, mostly because I AM a geek, but also because I am a professional geek. This is one of those times. Back in the days of Windows … Continued