Translating Techspeak to English
Can you boot into the BIOS?
Can you startup in recovery mode?
What is your IP?
Who is your ISP?
As a customer on a tech support call, these questions are simple to answer — because you and I are techs. For what it’s ...
Back in the early 2000’s, I was working as a consultant to a large tech company. Wifi was just getting fun and Apple had recently released their Airport wifi routers. The small Windows network was being run on BackOffice and the Macs…well, it was all...
When was the last time you went through and culled your address book? How about your photos? Or your iTunes library? Have you cleared out your closet recently? Or your bookshelves? Or your garage? Yeah, me too. And if you’re not moving in the near fu...
I watched a conversation (such a strange turn of phrase - our language has morphed in such weird ways) a while back that centered around whether silos of responsibility or general responsibility were preferable. Should you specialize or generalize?
I...
Do I really know as much as they think I know?
Maya Angelou, Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks, me - what do all these people have in common?
That feeling that says, “I’m a fake.” It is the impending fear that at any moment now, you will be found out ...
4.5 year old Harper is a high-cuddle office companion. She is also a well respected toy-creation artist (below you'll see her creation called "champagne glass"). She makes heckin' good art, even when borkin' at skwrlz.
Thanks for suggesting more work Ben. I mean...uhh...great suggestion. The cool thing about these is that google sheets is web-based and Excel can be too! I know what you mean. That is not in the plan at the moment but it's a sweet idea and I'll make...
There are still many companies (think graphics and video) where storing in the cloud is just too much - too much data, too much bandwidth, too much. So those servers or NASes or SANs do have to be backed up. When I was doing consulting I would still ...
Yay to another Chicagoland peep! Keep your eyes peeled as we're planning the next meetup. I think we're going to try to do them monthly, mixing them up between in-person and virtual. We have an amazing "member" who runs the IT at a place that's perfe...
