Are you the guy that got stuck with the office IT just because you can work an iPod? Got the usual small family business budget of zero for IT? Maybe you’re like me and have 8 or so computers in your house and want to get a grip on them. Spiceworks offers free network monitoring [...]

If you’ve been to my personal blog, you know I’m a kind of big guy. Some say I’m big-boned, but really, I’ve never seen a fat skeleton. Anyway, enough self-deprecation. The point is, I would like to get healthier and that means leaner and that means exercise. Walking is probably the best exercise for me, [...]

In the Oil and Gas industry, our computer users are often several hundreds of miles away from a hamlet, let alone a city. The average user is also much more of a hands-on kind of person and is usually a novice computer user. The environment they work in is rife with dust and dirt and, [...]

Cults are awesome. Well not really but that got your attention didn’t it? As I was contemplating Easter approaching and the fact that just a couple thousand years ago, Christianity was considered a cult, I got to thinking. I thought, “Hey, Christianity was a cult. Maybe some cults aren’t so bad. Maybe I should join [...]

Is there a child in a developed country that doesn’t interact with a computer in some fashion everyday? Probably not. Yet still, many of these kids have only a vague idea of what makes a computer tick. It also appears that, for the most part, kids don’t get into the inner workings of programming until [...]

It’s been a few millenia since I took this gig, and I’m telling you, it’s getting boring. Same thing, day in and day out. First the hearse, then the crying, then those old hymns. Although, they do put a nice jazz swing in them in New Orleans. Well, since I can’t take a vacation, what [...]

Sure you were on the high school football team and had a wicked Camaro. You may have even done bungee jumping and joined the century club in college. Yet there’s more to being a man than testosterone, gasoline and whiskey. Here’s the seven manliest websites to aid you in perfecting your manliness, my good man. [...]

This amazing technology called the World Wide Web has been in the mainstream for just a little over 10 years, yet we are already taking it for granted. Much like we take the natural world around us for granted. Every once in a while though you’ll stop and stare at the sky, or be struck [...]

A while back, I worked part-time for an alumni association that was trying to track down old alumni and solicit them for donations. It’s a process really. Here’s how I did it and how you can find someone’s email address. (Please don’t be a stalker. That’s just rude, really – she’s just NOT that into [...]

You’ve done everything you can to get your computer back up to speed. You’ve used all the tools there are to save space, defrag, and get rid of junk.   You’ve done all you can but your computer still…..runs…dead……s-l-o-w. The first thing I check on a slow computer is if it is running in PIO or [...]

Say you’ve taken on a new job and you find that the fellow (or fellows) doing the job before have never documented their passwords for the many applications you need to do your job. Purely hypothetical, I’m sure it NEVER happens. Let’s also say that you have a major update to do and you can’t [...]

Have you visited some sites you’d rather others didn’t know about? Is your tin foil hat fitting a little tight? Well you’re about to get a little more paranoid or at least a little more educated. You may have used some sort of software to “erase your tracks” after doing some web surfing, but the [...]