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I spent most of yesterday stopping my non-IT co-workers from burning the building down around themselves. Today a user w/ email issues decided to play with settings and profiles in Outlook and "fixed" the problem as they saw it, which ignores the problem they were having. I want to smack someone.

At the mercy of the internet

I might - MIGHT - participate in the office "costume contest" this year. Let me know which you think I should get:

Lies

TRON: Ares

I saw the movie on Sunday, with my daughter who has somehow never seen either TRON (BluRay, DVD) or TRON: Legacy (BluRay, DVD). I'll fix that.I went into the movie having read very little of any press/preview stuff. I think I saw the trailer when it first came out, but between being…

The Only Way Out is Through

Don’t. Feed. The. Printer.

Photo is of a cat treat I recently fished out of a printer. My own printer. I can't believe my life sometimes....

Pretty close to the worst spam I’ve ever received

So the thing here is that I never asked to be signed up for their mailing list. Ever. And this is to my work email, which I'm a little more fast and loose with, but.... I never would have chosen to sign up for a cellular companies emails because:…

A reminder from our Legal Weasel, Joe

Waiting…

I've had some equipment returned to me at work, and I need to backup the data before I can wipe the machines. So now I wait, as many gigabytes of data fly past me over the wifi (unlucky) and ethernet (very lucky), and hope that I don't have to interact with the backup processes on these…

Why isn't Kenvue, owner of the Tylenol brand, suing the US Government, RFKjr and DJT into oblivion?

I wax philosophic about some printers. Why do I need to print things anymore? That's a topic for another post.

Prompt: How are you feeling right now?

Daily writing prompt How are you feeling right now? View all responses Not so bad, and you? Slightly more seriously? A little excited about the 3 day weekend. I have things to do, but it's Three Whole Days Ahead of me.

Rooster on the beach

Hurt people hurt people..... You're not wrong - the cycle won't break itself.

I’ll take “signs I don’t think belong in a restaurant for $2,000 Ken” #what? #shaunofthedead #youvegotredonyou

Friends may have kids, could you be the cool aunt that gives them shit?

Youngest doing drivers license test this am - scheduled it himself. Still waiting for him 90 min later because it’s based on order of people arriving and nothing else. #chaos #gottapee

If I ask you, the user, what software you need, why on earth would you tell me that I have to figure it out? You’re the scientist who wants what you want, I’m the grumpy IT guy who doesn’t want to talk to you more than I have to…. #itlife

Coding: AppleScript to help deal with spam

If you use AppleMail and any kind of spam filtering, you know that sometimes things get through and you didn't want it. Despite having filtering at the domain level, and an anti-spam filter on my computer, stuff still gets through. It sucks.

AI Bots: The next frustration?

It used to be that just creating a "robots.txt" file would be enough to stop your site from being crawled by webspiders intent on indexing the internet. Now you can't even count on that, apparently: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website…

Daily Prompt for July 21, 2025

Daily writing prompt What do you listen to while you work? View all responses In the morning, news podcasts. When those run out, I either listen to my backlog of podcasts, or music from my library. I try to mix it up, but sometimes I'll hear a song that sends me to…

Actions have consequences…

I used to have an RSS feed for a bunch of comics I like to read. And then the criminal organization, I mean syndicate, went after the service that did the conversion from web page to RSS feed: So I decided to suck it up and go to the syndicate's website - only I'm using…

I’ve never been more convinced that people being “brilliant” in their field is an indicator of their inability to grasp simple concepts in PC use than right now. This particular user makes me want to drive 3 hours to visit him, reclaim his equipment and give him an etch a sketch in return. #techlife

Compo Beach, dusk

Walnut Beach

Phone calls

Like many people, I get lots of calls from numbers I don't recognize - today was no exception. The surprise came when I got a VM, which is much rarer these days. The message speaks for itself.... (Since I'm trying to post more, I was going thru my drafts to see what I had started and…

Retropia “Repurposed” Lens

As someone who loves to take photos, there's a lot you can do in things like software when you take a photo. But what about when you take the photo? There's all kinds of lenses available, but sometimes you want something a little different. Like... maybe the lens out a…

Always a fun when the HR person is asking about how to make sure not even IT can find a file….

That sphincter tightening 10 minutes between when you find a machine that's not booting and when it finally starts up. Who needs coffee after that???