I am sitting in a car waiting to pick up a relative and noticed how slow time goes by while doing nothing. So I am taking the time to really look at my phone and see all that it can do. Guess what!! The modern-day mobile phone can do a ton of things! For example, I am creating this blog post from a phone. Think about how close we are to have a full computer in our pocket! All you…
Twice a year, I get my greater IT team together to assess the tactical plan for the next six months and gather input looking forward to the next three years. I found this process to be insightful, thought-provoking, and personally challenging. Nobody, and I mean nobody, enjoys having someone poke holes in their plans for eight plus hours. However, if this is not done regularly than my plans and assumptions may be completely off or develop gaps large enough park a small data…
A few weeks ago, my primary computer crashed. Sad I know, but being an IT professional, it was distressing to say the least. The problem was severely compounded by occurring during the worst possible time. The last several weeks have been extremely busy at work I did not have any time or desire to address the problem. Once I could catch my breath and figure out what had failed, it still took a couple of weeks to order parts and find the…
High expectations with a low tolerance for frustration typically make for cranky customers. The web has turned the vast majority of wired people into cranky customers. I just cannot accept that my (insert application name here) is not working or accessible to me right this instant. I can think back to just a few years ago when an outage of a Google service was a minor annoyance and did not make me cranky in the slightest. Now, I am upset…