Daily Entries
Last minute crash
Well, at 5:05pm on Friday (go figure on the time problems started), my computer was acting flaky so I decided to do the normal thing and reboot. Unfortunately, my desktop at the office decided to flake out entirely and for some reason decided it no longer wanted to be part of the Moon River domain.…
Read MoreRepeated Characters in VMWare
For those of you who experience occasional typing problems with your VMWare machines, there’s still hope. Over the past few years, I’ve run into this problem several times, and every time the symptoms are basically the same. When you’re using a remote console to access a virtual machine, as you start typing the characters will…
Read MoreAthens, Greece – Day 4
I was going to write another post about my day yesterday when I got back from the office, but my day simply got worse when I booted up my laptop. It turns out that there is a strike going on here in Athens. A lot of the city services are shutting down, garbage is piling…
Read MoreAthens, Greece – Days 1-2
I’ve been here for literally 10 minutes and I already hate the place. It’s cramped, it smells funny, there’s nothing to do here, the food sucks, and I had to pay $125 to get an adapter so I could plug my laptop into the power outlet. Only 9 more hours before I get out of…
Read MoreReturning from hiatus
So, I’m back. Technically I never went anywhere. Unless you count Indianapolis, Puerto Rico, Raleigh, Durham, Pinehurst, and Indianapolis again. I also have an upcoming trip to Athens. Yep. As in Athens, Greece. I leave on Saturday. Two weeks after I get back, I leave for Las Vegas where we’re sponsoring a conference. Yes, life…
Read MoreJob opening at Moon River Consulting
We have a full time position open here at Moon River Consulting. What’s that you say? What’s Moon River Consulting? Well, it’s the consulting counterpart of Moon River Software. The listing is on Monster.com and you can find out more information about it here. If you’re pretty good with Windows, Unix, and have a halfway…
Read MoreTreating the symptoms, but not the problem
A few days ago, I was riding up the elevator to my office and as usual, was annoyed when it stopped at the second floor. My office building has a parking garage right behind it and there’s a connection to the second level of the building. I have a parking pass in another garage because…
Read MoreGoogle does it again… and again
It seems like it’s been years since I started using Google Maps and Google Docs. It probably has been for Google Maps, but I only started using Google Docs this past year to write articles for my blog and share them for review with other people. In the past week, my two biggest complaints about…
Read MoreExcel spreadsheet productivity
You’d think that with the whole “widescreen craze”, Microsoft would have addressed this issue on their own. It turns out that when you’re using Excel 2003, you can’t view two Excel documents side by side in different monitors because Excel opens them up in a single application window. They show up in the taskbar as…
Read MoreWorking hard or hardly working
Well, I’ve put another pair of 60+ hour weeks behind me. Hopefully that’s the end of the extended hours this summer, but I rather doubt it. At least this week the AC in my office should be fixed. I was getting tired of working in an office that was 85+ degrees with high humidity and…
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