Meeting new people can be a traumatic and anxious event in your life, especially in the employment process; sadly, little emphasis is given by the majority of people during this crucial step – the first impression. The instant I meet you, you have less than 15 seconds to define how our [working] relationship evolves –…
Google definitely has a sense of humor, as we’ve all seen with their “predictive text” searches, commonly appearing on social networks and failblogs. Today I stumbled across another one of Google’s oddities and fun-filled hidden secrets… Visit google and simply type in “Do a barrel roll” (no quotes).. Enjoy!
I find it interesting that the word “googling” is “officially” listed as a verb in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary; Everyone [at some point] has googled themselves – not out of egotism but out of curiosity. If you have a unique name your search results are generally focused on you, a common name – not so much….
Junk email sucks but nothing’s worse than sending [legitimate] email and having it being inadvertently flagged as spam. What makes things even worse is when the company filtering you has horrible support and virtually no [easy] process in place to get unblocked; Surprisingly i’m not talking about AOL!? We all remember way back in the…
I’ve been dealing with an upgrade project to upgrade the entire corporate networked infrastructure for a company. The project has been moving along without incident up until yesterday; I ran into a significant problem with link aggregation not working “as described”. Scope of work: Enable link aggregation of backbone connections between core switches and floor…
Let’s examine this: “[insert ISP]‘s price guarantee” promise. Essentially, if you google some key words like “price for life” or “price guarantee” you’ll run into marketing propaganda for various internet and communications providers “locking in” today’s advertised price for services so that you’ll have that price and level of service for years or even a…
Microsoft and IBM – two powerhouse companies with very loyal followers have taken two distinctly different paths; IBM keeping very slow and steady, Microsoft continually evolving, upgrading and making things “people proof”. While both paths have their advantages and disadvantages IT department are continually having to find workarounds to make things play nice with each…