I’ve been pretty much head’s down in Access all day so far. I had a rather complicated request for some reporting from our membership database, so I pulled all of that into Access to mess around with some queries and I’ve got it 90% done, but I’m running into a slight roadblock involving the exact logic of what I’m trying to do. Maybe I’m just hungry and need to set it aside until after lunch. 🙂
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From Alex Scoble: Don’t pack rat! This is a good idea. Here’s an example, I started this job and moved into this office about 6 years ago. The person who held this postion previously, was a big time pack rat. I have never been able to fully divest myself of some of his stuff. I…
Last week, we talked about how much people listen to outside IT people compared to internal people. Remember that? This morning we have exhibit #1: I got an email from one of my users. One of his business contacts had forwarded him an email about virus warnings that she had gotten from their IT Department….
Just an update on some things I’ve been doing. Angela already wrote about the Roomba, so I’ll leave that alone, other than to say, as a gadget type of guy, I’m fascinated by watching it work. (Of course, the whole point is that it works while you’re doing something else, so I need to break…
I’ll be over here most of today, leafing through the latest Microsoft updates, 7 total, 2 critical. Then I’m going to go over here and check out a spellchecker Firefox extension, thanks to a recommendation from Geek News Central. In between, I’ll be helping set up a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting, dealing with some…
Well I just discovered that my ICQ account has been hacked and I can no longer access it. So for the time being, ignore the ICQ information, and don’t try to contact me there. On top of that, my return to work on Weds. is going to be met by yet another replacement hard drive…
For something like the 5th straight year, our summer intern showed up today, with no advanced notice given anyone in the IT Department (me), again! For an even extra-added bonus, this year he showed up two days before our Annual Meeting, which, of course, means that all of our extra equipment, and some not so…