I used to say I was a drummer first and a technology guy second, but who am I kidding? I play probably 8-10 times a year and practice only when the band does, which is only slightly more than we actually gig … so I'm not improving, I'm just in maint ...[Read More]

A customer asked me to summarize my approach to helping people find my business (www.itgroove.net) online.   I used to do a fair amount of print advertising to build 'brand'. But it was extremely expensive and had a short shelf life (before it ...[Read More]

I get asked enough, I figured I better tell the story (actually I did elsewhere, so I'm being lazy and just copying and pasting the details here).   Well, I got a tattoo the other day (Friday, July 11, 2008).  As I'm sure anyone will tell you, ...[Read More]

Stumbled across this today via Google Images and I couldn't resist posting it on here. One frustration I have (like many others) is the insistence with many customers (particularly in SMB) who buy technology before mapping out what they are trying ...[Read More]

This is an old post that I'm refreshing as I noticed it was appearing in search results (but on my old blog, I got TONNES of people saying this helped them, so I'm hoping to do that again by bumping this to the top...)   Ok, this one took a whil ...[Read More]

Darren turned me on to this site today. Pretty cool, easy to use and easy to determine how much UPS plans to rip me off when a vendor insists on using them for providing shipping to Canada (sometimes their shipping/duty fees are more than the item ...[Read More]

Someone asked this on Experts Exchange today, so I posted my 2 bits. As someone who daily runs into a 'gosh, that's weird or new' in technology, I find this simple but effective technical troubleshooting/research technique very useful. As simple ...[Read More]

Here's a listing of (no, I'm not ranting about how much I love SharePoint in this post, though I might reference it here and there) 3rd party tools that I use constantly and a brief summary of how I use it (I'm not listing the complete listing of ...[Read More]

One of my (and my wife’s) dearest friends, Bret (aka  Barf, Bart, etc.) has finally published some of his fantastic works on his newly revamped website.  Not only is he showing off his terrific sense of humour (desert dry, the way I like it), he’s s ...[Read More]

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ...[Read More]