If you want a personal update on where things are with me this week, go here. I think you’ll see why I haven’t been blogging much at all lately, and may not be for a while.
I did, in the midst of it all, catch this little story about MS cutting the price for Office and offering “home-use rights” again. That’s huge. Huge enough that I had to post it, even though I’m not in the mood to play “blogger” today. 🙂
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Geek News Central has a post about unsubscribing to a handful of feeds that are both partial feeds, and filled with Google Ads. He was nice enough not to name names but I’m sure that any of you who subscribe to said feeds (Cough, cough, Lockergnome, cough cough..)know exactly who he’s talking about. Seriously, with…
Just a few notes, Kevin has created a In The Trenches listener button that you can use to help promote his podcast for sys. admins. He’s also set up a CafePress shop to promote the show, and help defray the bandwidth costs. Meanwhile, Chad, who has recently started a podcast of his own, setup a…
Already this morning I’ve sat through a staff meeting, helped unload stuff from last week’s event, which included hooking a printer back up that had been out there, checked the weekend backups, and read through my emails. Still to do are some accounting reports, an update to our website database, a conference call with a…
Since Angela was working a pre-game event on campus today, and had asked me to come and maybe take some photos during the event, and since the event didn’t occur until after the College Game Day show ended, I took advantage of the opportunity to check out the crowd for College Game Day. I got…
Every poor manager I’ve ever dealt with has been a poor communicator. Almost every shortcoming or problem I’ve seen people have with a manager or coworker could be filed under a problem with communication. It’s THE thing in the workplace. Ideas, expectations, priorities, and everything else in the workplace come down to the ability to communicate. If you cannot communicate clearly, you are lost, and the people who work for you or lost.
Yet how many organizations promote the top performer or their most senior individual contributor without ever considering whether they are good communicators? And how many prioritize teaching them how to communicate as managers?
I finally got to dig around in the wiring closet late this morning. Looks like those 4 ports are just dead, nothing to be done for them. There doesn’t seem to be any indication that the other 8 ports on that switch are having any problems, though their own failure may be coming right around…