McAfee My first enterprise antivirus experience was McAfee.  We’re talking probably late 1980’s and there was nobody at the company interested in viruses so I figured I’d take a look.  I managed to clean an infection and decided we needed a corporate antivirus and policy, thus Mc...

Yesterday, I worked from home for part of the day while I took my mother off to run some errands as I get her back where she needs to be and out of my house.  So, I was in bed at a decent hour last night, and I woke up this morning ready for the gym.  Of course, once I got to the gym, the ...

Ok, network people, time to stand up and be counted.  Or at very least, do some counting. By default, my firewall at work gives me a list of the top twenty five sites visited, among other things.  Every now and then I look at this list, especially when I’m feeling a lot of good will toward m...

0031. the next few nights will be a mad rush as the workload piles up. it's not that im unwilling to work overtime. there's the half day claim i can get if i work past midnight. but the amount of work has gotten so tremendous that merely thinking about it makes me nauseous. to burn the midnight oil,...

I love meetings.  In roughly the same way the Jews loved Hitler. They exist for no particular purpose other than to take up time and resources.  Nothing ever gets done at a meeting, with the possible exception of scheduling the next meeting.  Some meetings exist for the sole purpose of planning t...

0208. i cant leave. and im upset. i handed in my letter once and they made promises that things will change. somethings did change, but 90% of them were for the worse. for example, my pay remained a constant this entire year. and in another example, my job satisfaction level went from low to negativ...

I work for a decent sized non-profit.  When smart phones began appearing, people at work began purchasing quite a variety of them.  Since there was no policy and we’re an `open’ environment, people had every right to purchase what they wanted (on the company’s dime or off).  No ...

Did you ever have one of those years? 2008 wasn’t so hot.  2009 hasn’t exactly started off too well either. My equipment is after me again.  Maybe the equipment is a proxy for the universe.  Something is out to get me and appears to be doing so via computers. Let’s start off wit...

I work for a non-profit.  Because of our mission, I always do my best to save money, even when others don’t.  Toward this end, I have recommended Open Office instead of Microsoft Office.  They’re compatible and Open Office is free.  Microsoft definitely offers a seductive charity rat...

Alexander McPherson, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at UC Irvine’s school of biological sciences, wrote a bitchin’ letter to the LA Times on the subject of sexual harassment training. This is a must-read for anyone that has a brain. As far as I can tell from my colleag...