"A comet usually too faint to be seen with the naked eye has brightened by a factor of a million since Tuesday, suggesting its surface may have cracked open and expelled clouds of dust and gas ( Read more... )

It's been rather busy for the past few days. One of our stores lost both internet access and phone systems early on in the week due to a fairly major accident at the construction site a block or two away. Apparently there were a few power, data, and phone lines torn up when one of the vehicles dug in the wrong spot. This knocked out both the ( Read more... )

I start a blog to talk about all the interesting crap that happens at work, and everything goes normal on me. I've had no real problems in the past week, which is really great and really irritating at the same time. You see, every computer tech knows that if all of the problems stop coming in for a day or so, it means that all hell is about to ( Read more... )

As I said before, there is a trick to being in multiple places at once. Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as I wanted it to. Today, I was caught in a little internal battle between three managers, all of whom wanted me to be at their dealership at the same time. With my boss in staff meetings for most of the morning, I was left to my own ( Read more... )

Today was a rather interesting day. I've been working at our Lexus dealership for the past three days, installing and configuring new computers to replace some of our aging ones (Read as: Older than DOS). Yesterday, I set up a new machine for one of the women in customer support and began to transfer her data from her old machine to her new one ( Read more... )

In an effort to become more social and to meet new people, I've motivated myself to begin writing again. While I've had problems coming up with topics to write about in the past, I think I've come up with something that should keep things interesting for a while: My job. Or rather, the kinds of things that fellow IT geeks have to deal with in ( Read more... )