03Aug2017
09Mar2017
Casual Cape Day: It’s About Gratitude
Three years ago, I decided to start a new holiday at my office. I got the idea from an old friend of mine back in college, who randomly put on a cape one day, and decided to declare Casual Cape Day. This kind of thing has been done before, so certainly there is...
06Mar2017
What to do about cloud outages
Last week, Amazon experienced a major service disruption to it's Simple Storage Services (S3). Here is their official (detailed) statement on the cause of the outage. As you probably heard, a lot of major online retailers and other companies who depend on these services were impacted. But what can you...
23Feb2017
Benefits to keeping an On-Premises Active Directory Domain
I have seen an alarming trend in the small business market--as more and more companies offload their IT infrastructure to cloud-based applications and services (which is great in many cases), many of them are also starting to abandon older tools and platforms such as on-premises Active Directory. This I cannot agree...
29Dec2016
Resourcefulness, Initiative and Grit
When faced with some problem, most of us (let's be honest) are habituated toward shopping for and purchasing some product that "solves" our problem. But the marketplace is not lacking in products. What is lacking, I believe, is spirit. When I was just a young boy, I thought that owning a...
22Dec2016
How to Fall in Love with your Job: Always do your best
Peter, most people don’t like their jobs. But you go out there and find something that makes you happy. –Office Space Even half a century ago, most people could not have connected with this movie as well as they do today. Memes from this modern classic can be found everywhere on the Internet,...
01Dec2016
Without a backup, your pants are on fire
I shouldn't even need to write this article. It's silly, but I have to do it anyway.  So here it goes...Not having a backup of mission critical applications and data is an emergency equivalent to having your pants on fire.
Most business owners and stakeholders already assume that you have a backup--they...
17Nov2016
How OneDrive changed the way I work
My Documents, on steroids
I kind of think about OneDrive like the My Documents folder of yore. Back in the olden days, "My Docs"--as it was affectionately referred--would be redirected to a company file server and backed up there by your administrator. But it meant you had to physically (or via VPN)...
10Nov2016
How Skype for Business changed the way I work
This platform can do way more than what I'm using it for right now (I don't have the extra fancy features where you can get a phone number, call land lines, forward to your cell, etc.). My understanding is that Skype can do all that, but I mostly use it...
03Nov2016