Some throughs on a very geeky and techie conversation at work this week on the reasons we have for picking the tools we use to do our daily job.
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Posts Tagged ‘work’
Feb
28
2010
Best tools for the job
Dec
12
2009
Excel and broken windows
I do both love and hate Excel. This is particularly true of Excel 2007.
As application support technician at work, training on all office applications is my job, so on Thursday afternoon when I had to deal with the question of how to have to Excel spreadsheets open and visible at the same time (again) I decided enough was enough. I was going to fix Excel’s broken window handling behaviour!
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Aug
08
2009
Monday is the new Friday
Some comments my of my colleges made a work realy made me see just how much I love my new job. Working where I do gives me a real buzz!
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Jul
19
2009
The difference between Unix and Windows admins
Working as a Mac fan in an IT department which hates all things Mac and Unix, I’ve noticed a something about Windows admins in general
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Oct
23
2008
My Terastation saga
Haa the Buffalo Terastation, oh how I love/hate thee!
I have to manage 12Tb’s worth of Terastations at work and well, it’s been a long story…
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Jun
21
2008
Tuning points
In the last few months I’ve been through 2 major turning points in my life and the first of these I had no choice about it happening, it was forced on me. But turning points are important and in this case while I wouldn’t have chosen for the first turning point to happen, I’m now glad it did.
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Apr
28
2008
Highs and lows
It’s been a real up and down week (sadly mostly downs) for me, so heres a quick summary of what’s happened.
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