I was called by the Computer Department Help Desk Scam–I Recorded it for fun tonight

On October 30, 2011, in Internet, Web Litter, Windows, Windows 7, by swallbridge

We’ve had a number of calls in the last week (probably 4, would swear it is the same woman even).  After yelling at her a few times and/or being outright mean and cruel (she doesn’t get sympathy…), tonight I thought I’d play along and record it. I missed the beginning as I was on the [...]

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Scientific Proof nobody reads those email disclaimers

On August 30, 2011, in Brain Litter, itgroove, Security, SharePoint, Web Litter, by swallbridge

Ok, maybe not scientific. But by my calculations, I have sent over 216,000 emails over the last 8 years (many with glorious colour), with just about all of them having a disclaimer on it that was complete nonsense and gibberish (by the way, I can’t take credit for writing it, nor will I, but I [...]

 

QR Codes are Hot

On April 2, 2011, in itgroove, Rants, Web Litter, by swallbridge
 

PEBCAK, PICNIC and ID-Ten-T

On February 11, 2011, in Brain Litter, itgroove, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Web Litter, by swallbridge

Heard a new one today, figured I’d share. Abuse of the end user is always satisfying.   PEBCAK has always been one of my favourite phrases but it never really rolled off the tongue (the word itself).  

 

If you happen to be in the Yukon

  If you happen to be in the Yukon on January 19th, 2011… I’ve been invited to speak at the Yitis (Yukon Information Technology and Industry Society) for their Boost! New Ideas in Business and Technology conference.   Learn More Here: http://boost.yitis.ca/   “ Incoming search terms:yukon information technology and industry society

 

How to Configure ReDj to redirect bogus page requests in Joomla

On December 21, 2010, in Web Litter, by swallbridge

One of the elements we plug into every Joomla site we build is an extension called ReDJ. The reason is, we want to ensure a visitor is never turned away. So, by ensuring that if they choose an old (dead) link, or simply mis-type a URL, we would much rather have them end up on [...]

 

Email Path – Where can my message get nuked?

On October 20, 2010, in Brain Litter, Exchange, Outlook, Security, Web Litter, by swallbridge

Here’s a thread I had recently with a customer about why/how some of their emails weren’t getting to the intended recipient. Unfortunately, no matter what we did, the upstream email recipient’s (the receiver) system was rejecting the message – worse still it wasn’t even telling anyone it was rejecting it (oh thanks!) Anyways, I thought [...]

 

Office 365 is coming

The next version (or renaming) of BPOS, the Microsoft Online Business Suite (SharePoint, Exchange, OCS which is now Lync) is looking pretty shiny. Looks to hit in early 2011 and also encouraging, it looks like Canada won’t be the forgotten stepchild that gets the products and services 6 months later this time.   Details This [...]

 
 

Book Coming…

On July 20, 2010, in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer, Web Litter, by swallbridge

Whew, look at that. 4 posts in June and this is the first for July. Tsk tsk… What can I say? It’s summer, we took a family work/play trip to Bermuda and then celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary by taking a cruise to Alaska. Pile in-between both of those, lots of work, some gigs and [...]

 

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