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I saw this video posted to a friends Facebook page. Maybe they are not as crazy as we think they are, just maybe stuck in the 80s.  (No I am still thinking crazy) Definitely thought of @accordionguy when I saw this one.

I saw this picture this morning and thought it was pretty funny. When you are absent from class, nothing like having a letter from the President of the United States to state your absence. Being with the president should count for some sort of course credit.   Link:  ...

Just a friendly reminder that the time changes tonight. We “spring ahead” one hour. I am looking forward to more evening hours daylight although the darker mornings won’t be as nice. Back when I worked in the hospital system in Northern Ontario, we used to run a VAX VMS 3000. It didn’t support the time [...]

Time change is with us again. Remember to set your clocks back an hour. Hopefully, no one is running old systems which will fail to adjust the time automatically. If you are one of those unlucky to be running an old system, one of things you can do is turn off the Time Change Settings. [...]

I was reading an article in IT World Canada in which a San Francisco based software development company is critizing Microsoft for not having a faster update cycle for IE9. The nutshell is they believe that not having continual updates is a drawback and makes IE9 behind the curve. The use the example that the [...]

With the Swine Flu H1N1 virus going around, chances are you may have staff or yourself needing to be able to work remotely. Some might be off for the flu itself, others may be off work to care for loved ones who have fallen ill. Regardless of the reason, as a network administrator one of [...]

Just a reminder to everyone (at least in North America) that time changes tonight. We fall back an hour and gain an hour of sleep.  Always check your systems tomorrow to ensure they changed correctly. Last spring I made a post on how to set the time source on Windows Server 2008.  Nothing has changed, [...]

TechDays is now in full swing. Vancouver and Toronto have both been completed and have gone well. The remaining cities are coming along in November and December. I will be presenting three sessions in Ottawa this year. Two sessions are part of the Windows Client track on Day 1 and one is in the Servers, [...]

I used to use Google exclusively. Sometimes I would search from Internet Explorer and it defaulted to Live Search. I would get my list of results and I would wonder what the heck is this, it isn’t close to what I was looking for. Then I’d realize my error (“Oops, used Live Search”), try to [...]

  I was searching this morning when I started to notice warnings that the site I am being directed to might contain malware. I did a news search and sure enough, I am seeing results in thailand and on a site called Neowin reporting the same thing.  Here is a screenshot of what I am seeing [...]