You should not be allowed to use computers anymore if you:

• Cannot follow illustrated directions.
• Think the "www" is a required part of any web address.
• Refer to your computer as "the CPU" or "the hard drive."
• Don't understand the difference between a…

...or reasons to get out of IT - depending on how attached I'm feeling to that "regular pay-cheque" thing at the moment.

First off, happy new year, blah, blah, blah, [insert navel-gazing year-in-review/big-plans-for-2008 post here]. There, that's done.

At the moment I'm working on some post-relaunch tweaks for Gothic BC and was looking at the logs. In between the…

I've been working on a project for the last while that has, as one aspect, an RSS aggregator to bring together news from a bunch of different related website - nothing earth-shaking there. Problem is one of the sources I want to aggregate is an ezboa…

You may already be familiar with infamous Tuttle, Oklahoma city manager who took ass-hattery to new depths. If not, the crux of it involves a technically inept embodiment of the Peter Principle claiming "22 years [experience] in computer systems and…

Perhaps it is because of having lost too much of my life fixing things FUBAR'd by Microsoft "fixes", but I have come to fundamentally doubt the motivation behind many Microsoft patches. As anyone who has worked in IT for any length of time knows…

I had a "lead developer" telling me that their application wouldn't work in a frame because if the address bar wasn't visible in the browser the application wouldn't work because it couldn't "see" the parameters in the URL. He meant "see" literally…