Customer. Consumer. Colleague. What’s the difference? The Customer is the person or entity paying. They may or may not use the service or product for which they are paying, but the money…
Team players vs autonomous thinking
My friend Doug over at asknice.com sent me this link: http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html I went out and bought the book. It’s a good read. Not exactly life changing, but potentially habit changing or perception…
Virus Removal
Again, a question from a friend caused me to write this up. And since I give out this information relatively frequently, I thought I would just post it here for all to…
Write! Sing! Draw! Dance! NOW. You can do it!
There are so many reasons why I like Indexed. This post is just another example. Robert Fulgham wrote a great piece (OK, I happen to think he’s written *a lot* of great…
Required Reading if you ever want to email me
Seriously. Read this. Come to think of it, I should probably print this and hand it out to certain members of my family, and stand over them to make sure they read…
Web site setup
A friend recently asked if I would help him set up a website (I get that a lot). He is unable to participate in a traditional work environment, but has some wonderful…
All roads lead to…
Your web site. FWIW, IMHO, Caveate Emptor, YMMV, Objects may be closer than they appear, etc etc etc. I’ve been building web sites as an amature for over 14 years now. Being…
The (Human) Cost of Our Crap
Over the weekend, on my way from point A to point B I caught an episode of “This American Life“. I always enjoy the program but this week it caught my ear…
12 Monitoring Tips for 2012
This list comes from my friend Steve Barger, a brilliant monitoring engineer as well as a gifted artist and webcomic author (You can read his weekly strip, “UpgrADe!” , here). Looking ahead…
SolarWinds: Going with the (net)Flow
You can now find this article on my Monitoring-centric web site!