Archives: 2007 January

One in a series of posts on various things you can do with technology to make yourself more productive …

Filter your company’s inbound e-mail. More than 90% of all the world’s e-mail is spam, according to one spam filtering service. If you block all that junk mail before it ever gets to your company’s mail server, you [...]

As you may have gathered from my recent post about installation glitches, I’m finally on the Office 2007 bandwagon. I’d checked it out in beta a bit, but didn’t want to put it on my production machines until the final code was released. Now comes the fun part: learning all the new features.
As I find information [...]

To really screw things up you need a computer. Just one or two misplaced characters, and look what happens. Check out what Bank of America thinks I was doing with my credit card:

I was prepared for hours of fun with this one, but a customer service rep told me all I had to do was [...]

My ten-minute play, “Life Savings,” will be presented on Friday, February 9, in Middleboro, Massachusetts. The play is about a California couple trying to manage a premature evacuation. Here are the details of the Slice of Life festival:
Theatre One Productions
Our Annual A SLICE OF LIFE 10 minute play festival
FEATURING 20 DIFFERENT PLAYS DURING THE THREE [...]

I’ve been through a few Office upgrades, and I’m used to simply running the new installation program and having my old Office versions replaced automatically. That didn’t work when I installed the trial version of Office 2007. Most components of the suite installed just fine, but not Outlook 2007.
I ended up with two versions of Word, [...]

If you don’t know what the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription is, you probably won’t care about this blog post and you can stop reading now.
If you do know what MAPS is, you might be interested in the following e-mail that I just sent to several managers at Microsoft:
I am writing to express my objections to a [...]

This is from Mozy, an online backup service. You get this prompt after creating a password to encrypt the data that you want to back up.

I’m currently evaluating the professional version of Mozy. If I like what I see, I will start recommending and reselling it to clients.

I know a couple people looking to hire small business IT consultants, so if you or someone you know is looking to make a move, let me know. All inquiries confidential, of course.

If your first choice for a vacation is relaxing on the beach with a drink in your hand, and your second choice is relaxing by the pool with a drink in your hand, then you might want to consider the Grand Oasis Cancun. Here’s my review of the place on TripAdvisor.

The word “Vista” is starting to enter the common vocabulary, much as “XP” did some years ago, and I’m getting questions about what it is and whether it’s needed. Fortunately, Microsoft got it right with their product naming strategies, so this time I don’t face the additional hurdle of asking whether the question is about [...]