I was outfitting some new systems at a client lately when I saw something odd. The secretary was busy filling out a directory for the boss. A directory created in Word. When I asked why it was done this way, I received that age old “it’s always…..”.
When I asked were these folks in the Global […]

I had an interesting conversation with a fellow commuter yesterday. They were discussing how to integrate applications with Active Directory and how “hard” it was finding null values. I thought that was interesting so I piped in that the value isn’t really null, the attribute just doesn’t exist. The looks I got back told me […]

I’ve resisted the plunge to Office 2007 for months now. I couldn’t see the need of the thing when Office 2003 was still kicking butt for me. I use Project, Outlook, Visio, and Excel daily and Word at least half the week. I also am a fan of open source. Therefore, I’ve been using OpenOffice […]

I’ve commented in the past about my suspicions about eBay buying up payment operator PayPal. I was wary about PayPal in the past but now using them to buy at eBay seemed like it would be a monumental bad move. My suspicions have been proved correct.
Where once you felt protected by the double edged sword, […]