Episode 69: Team Weigh-Ins
I said it as a joke. Gordon and Kieron (the two others on my project team with me) were sitting around in our office talking about work when Kieron decided to step on the scale. I don’t know why we...
View ArticleEpisode 70: What’s Your Desktop Background?
Currently, my work desktop background is one of the pictures that I took on my London trip last April. It’s a pretty picture and I’ve stretched it across my two monitors using DisplayFusion (free...
View ArticleEpisode 71: Ever Mouse It Up With Your Left Hand?
Some people are left handed. They apparently have to deal with issues surrounding this for the rest of their lives because they live in a world dominated by right handers. They’re the kids that smudge...
View ArticleEpisode 72: Employee Badges—Better Looking than Drivers License Pictures
Did you see 30 Rock last week? If you did, you saw Liz Lemon’s ugly employee badge picture. She was apparently holding in a “snart.” And it made her look rather hideous. Who here actually has a decent...
View ArticleEpisode 73: Music at Work
My next door neighbor was complaining back when Pandora changed its website to limit the amount of free radio you could listen to. She was bummed because that was how she listened to music at work. I...
View ArticleEpisode 74: Meeting Rooms Need Clocks All Over The Walls
I’ve been thinking lately about how much I dislike certain meetings. I don’t dislike ALL of my meetings. So I wondered, why don’t I like certain meetings? I think I spent an entire 26 seconds pondering...
View ArticleEpisode 75: The Love Marathon—It was Tainted
We don’t always know why we do things in IT. We just do them. And think about them later. And later is when we realize that we are a special breed, all grouped together in one, big, geeky department,...
View ArticleEpisode 76: Bathrooms at Work
It was Tuesday afternoon and I’d been drinking water all day, time for my bathroom break. I was also hungry and needed my afternoon snack so I grabbed an oatmeal packet and walked down the hall....
View ArticleEpisode 77: Mmmm, Bug Fest
What would YOU think if somebody gave you a full, brown paper bag that was labeled “bug fest”? Seriously. What would be your initial reaction? Mmmm, bug fest. What’s in this bag? Debbie brought us all...
View ArticleEpisode 80: Burning Bridges
I was looking for something to do when I had free time (on lunch breaks, in the evenings, on the weekends). So I wrote an article. It’s absolutely RIVETING, too. I mean, if I were to turn it into a...
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