Intuition & Elbow Grease™

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before… Looks like my ATT statement is ready, and isn’t nice of them to send me an email notification?  But uh-oh!  Look how much that bill is for!  Surely someone’s made an error!  I’d better click on that link and get this straightened out, pronto! Ok, let’s stop [...]

  135 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities. I just received a fraudulent email claiming that my LinkedIn account was locked out.  At first glance the sender appeared legit as did the body of the email and the link that I was [...]

  Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you [...]

Lion (OSX 10.7) is now available, although I don’t feel compelled to upgrade. The Mac Minis have lost their optical drives. No more white Macbook (your choices are either an Air or a Pro for laptops now) Not sure how I feel about the loss of the optical drives… On the one hand I think [...]

From McAfee AvertLabs: “McAfee is aware that a number of corporate customers have incurred a false positive error due to incorrect malware alerts. Our initial investigation indicates that the error can result in moderate to significant performance issues on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 3. The 5958 DAT has been removed from McAfee download [...]

The current generation of cellular telephony products presents a wide range of potential risk to the corporate environment. From the simplest cell phones that could expose a corporate phone list, to more advanced cellular devices that are capable of storing and manipulating documents, to the latest smart phones that enable direct access to the network [...]

If you didn’t know it about me, I’m a very big fan of using text as my default method of storing information.  Whether it’s a note about the specific hex colors for a website, my daily tasks, projects or  todo lists, I keep them all in plaintext files.  I made the transition to text-only years [...]