Weird IT question of the day

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

When you work in IT, not only do you have to answer questions about PC’s, but sometimes you even get to figure out why the two-letter abbreviation for Quebec that someone wrote as their address, QC, is not what the database will accept as the proper abbreviation for Quebec. You would think that if someone living there abbreviated it QC the database would surely do the same, right? You’d be wrong. It will only accept PQ, which I assume is the French language version of it.

How much you want to bet that months from now, someone’s going to ask me where that stupid PQ came from? 🙂

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • Bloglines subscribers

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Sometime over the weekend, the number of people who subscribe to this blog using Bloglines hit 100. Now, I realize that isn’t a big total compared to some other places, however the significance of it, for me, is that is just about the same number of actual visits to the page on a daily basis….

  • IE Tab in Firefox

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Picked up this story at Download Squad the other day, about a Firefox Extension that will run an Internet Explorer engine inside one of your Firefox tabs. This is kinda cool if, like me, you work some place that uses Outlook Web Access, which runs much smoother in IE, or has an intranet site that…

  • Funny holiday story

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    So where I work, we allow attorneys to work from home on a pretty regular basis, we’ll even go ahead and set-up their machines for them to use a VPN connection to our network, and Remote Desktop to work directly from their office machine. We also require that they have a firewall installed if they…

  • ActiveWords and what I’d really like

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    So I’ve been using ActiveWords for a few weeks now, and I’m liking the ability to add some shortcuts, and the auto correction of misspellings no matter what application I’m typing in, but it’s missing something. What I’d really like is something that will actually record keystroke or mouse clicks and let you automate certain…

  • Our own little war..

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    There’s going to be a war in my office, specifically on the floor I work on, and it’s going to be over the coffee maker. I do not understand how grown adults can think it’s ok to spill coffee down the counter and into little puddles on the floor and walk away from it. (That’s…

  • Freeware and more..

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    If you’ve been paying attention to the link blog, you’ll probably notice that I’ve been pointing to things on one particular site on an almost daily basis. I figure it’s about time to give some props where they are due, so I give you the place where I’ve found more little freeware apps and tools…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)