Why you shouldn’t trust your IT guy
Hopefully you have an approachable IT team, a trustworthy IT team. But whilst it’s great they are trustworthy please please don’t ever trust them, and here is why. Continue reading
Category: Blog
If IT asks for your password, there is something seriously wrong.
Your password is yours, nobody else should have it. Not your co-workers, not your manager, not your CEO, and definitely not your IT guy. Continue reading
MFA, and when it’s not
Multi-factor authentication is a great way to keep your account secure from unauthorised login attempts, especially when your password has been exposed. But it’s not a shining panacea. Continue reading
LOTE
Learning Computers is like learning another language, we need to understand that it’s all French to our non IT savvy staff Continue reading
Five kept, five thrown
I tend to hoard things and often things I hide away show up in the weirdest places. In an attempt to declutter and reorganize my stuff here are 5 things kept and where they now belong, and five things thrown and why. Cleaning up after a big mouse infestation has resulted in some tough decisions made easier. Five Thrown 1. Box of old cables and hard drives. First off a box full of goodies. There is a set of old PC speakers, some power cables and adaptors, various audio cables, DVI, VGA, RCA, USB, FireWire, IDE Hard Drives, a mouse… Continue reading
Five kept, five thrown.
I tend to hoard things and often things I hide away show up in the weirdest places. In an attempt to declutter and reorganize my stuff here are 5 things kept and where they now belong, and five things thrown and why. Today I started tackling the mess that makes up my desk. Five Kept 1. Dilbert Comic Book: not sure if this one will end up at work, but for now it’s back on the bookshelf. 2. Bravest Warriors Comic and Regettable Superheros book from Loot Crate: these have been deemed worth holding onto and now have joined Dilbert… Continue reading
Gnoming Part 2
Went back around to the cousins place, moved a few gnomes around and made a new addition. Continue reading
Sign on the door
Life with an Author Wife can be trying. Especially when attempting to make something Grand out of the mundane. Sometimes things are just not elaborate enough… When I mentioned to my wife that I had thought of a poem to attach to the external door we mainly use as an entry, things got complicated. This sign would recommend that our guests use the main door around the corner of the house instead of the laundry door. The thing is, I had complely forgotten the poem and was trying to recall it. I was going for something short and simple, something… Continue reading
Field (Hockey) Day
Every once in a while I get to do something really cool. I get to operate a scoreboard… OK, so when I say it like that it sounds a bit dull and boring, but, this is not a scoreboard with wooden boards with white numbers lovingly painted onto a field of black. This is a massive LED Display that can display pretty much anything and I’m in control. Sure it’s a bit of hard work setting it up or tearing it down at the end of the night but it is soooo worth it. I run a broadcasting program on my… Continue reading
The Semi-Great
when just OK won’t do Features: 6 berth; WUP design; half span grate style standing shelf; hand-tap flush; drip-drainage; urinal cakes (optional) Welcome to an evolution in Primary Education Uninal Systems, the Semi-Great will allow for 6 occupants with it’s Walk Up and Pee design. Our patented grate styled standing shelf spans half the length of the urinal wall* reducing the amount of spatter-back “puddles” on the surrounding floor area. Our water saving hand-tap flush system eliminates water wasting false flushes that plague other auto-flush systems and reduces the wasted water generated from traditional cistern systems. The drip filtered… Continue reading
