Restaurant/eatery websites, or any commercial premises website for that matter, which doesn't have any information on what time it closes other than "late ( Read more... )

Managed to design, configure, test, and implement a cross-WAN multi-backup, caching, and cross-site mirror and data transfer setup for the current employer ( Read more... )

You know, I don't actually mind people taking the afternoon before Christmas off. I don't even mind entire offices taking the afternoon off ( Read more... )

Black box, in this case, meaning "ideas go in, money comes out ( Read more... )

Tyler Tervooren posted in May on his website that "The best jobs in the world belong to people who have learned to do these four incredibly important things ( Read more... )

Having been on the receiving end of hundreds, if not thousands of these things in all kinds of media, from phone calls to email to social network messages to physical letters, one commonality stands out ( Read more... )

I'm probably a few months late to the party with this link, but Managing Geeks is quite accurate, and worth a read for any manager not sure about where to start.

But work and travel and sleeping and paperwork are taking up most of my hours. And days ( Read more... )

It seems the current workplace is a flaming straitjacket full of fighting fish-licences.

There is just so much that needs fixing it's not funny.

This year's stress attack in five, four, three...

Time to break out the suit and tie again, another client has signed up. Not really sure I can do more than a couple hundred thousand dollars of improvements for them, as they're an order or two of magnitude smaller than I'm used to, but I'll consider it a challenge. They're mostly white-collar, not out in the field, so that's prime territory for me ( Read more... )