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Crickets

You have to know your audience.

02/22/19

Opinion

Throwback Thursday: Scope creep

The methodology that dares not speak its name.

02/21/19

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

If only all IT-user interactions could go like this.

02/20/19

Opinion

Yabba dabba doo!

Sorry to tell you, but the automation works better.

02/19/19

Opinion

Memory-Lane Monday: Whatever works

Why no Wi-Fi?

02/18/19

Opinion

Funny ha-ha

And yet some people see no value in practical jokes.

02/15/19

Opinion

Throwback Thursday: Can I see me now?

Remoting from a non-remote PC? It’s all too metaphysical.

02/14/19

Opinion

How much knowledge is a dangerous thing?

In which a pilot fish learns a really efficient way to kill an SSD disk.

02/13/19

Opinion

Time-Machine Tuesday: It’s all in how you ask

A patient pilot fish finally gets his due.

02/12/19

Opinion

So much learning in one day

Some employees start in the mailroom and work their way down.

02/11/19

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Flashback Friday: A little TOO efficient

A moving story from back in the day.

02/08/19

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Throwback Thursday: Pick a card, any card ...

It’s all so random.

02/07/19

Opinion

And that, kids, is how you boot a system

Sometimes you just need to do a little percussive maintenance.

02/06/19

Opinion

Not-so-Big Gulp

It’s not raining now, therefore it won’t rain in the future.

02/05/19

Opinion

Memory-Lane Monday: Do as I say, not as I ...

The exception that proves the rule?

02/04/19

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Flashback Friday: That’s unusual?

It’s a heat wave, but just in the server room.

02/01/19

Opinion

Throwback Thursday: Anything better would be too good

At her most recent performance review, this pilot fish gets a rating of 3 of a possible 5 -- "fully satisfactory." Not bad, but she wants to do better. The question: How?

01/31/19

Opinion

It's a hack!

A few years after Y2K, this pilot fish has overall responsibility for his company's website -- which is why the frantic CEO emails him to say the website has been hacked.

01/30/19

Opinion

Oh, grow up!...and down...and up...and down...

The plan is to add Wi-Fi to this factory, and to speed up the process they're trying something new this time: training an IT guy to run the scissor lift for himself

01/29/19

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Rule #1: Don't. Rule #2: If you must, see Rule #1

This IT pilot fish lands a one-year gig working at an Army installation, and it turns out that the IT rules are just like in the civilian world -- only more so.

01/28/19

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