If you’re like me, you get a lot of junk mail. But at my house, there’s one piece of mail I get frequently that infuriates me. In fact, my wife can tell from my reaction exactly what I’ve received. In my business, I have a large number of domains registered for my…

As an IT Consultant, I’m consistently presented with computers that have not been updated in years. The process of getting these dinosaurs up-to-date is not only time consuming, it becomes expensive in a lot of other ways. First, consider the time it takes to run a…

Don’t be like Jennifer Lawrence. The recent celebrity photo hacking scandal brings to mind how far we’ve come in the world of technology, but also reminds us not to get too complacent about data security. Technology has come a long way, and it has even further to go….

For a number of years I have been fascinated with network and Internet security. However, over the past several years, as security threats around the world have steadily increased, my interest has become keener. My involvement…

Let’s look a scenario. XYZ company has an opening for a Level II help desk position in its IT department. The hiring decision comes down to two people: Applicant A has a few years of experience, has done some user support, maybe worked on server or two, but has no…

In an interview with the Australian Financial Review, Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins went so far as to suggest that Apple’s iOS was an outdated operating system and that Blackberry would soon be passing it by. Really? Never mind that Apple’s iOS operating system and…

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” – Chinese Proverb Amen to that. Having been an IT consultant for nearly 20 years, it occurred to me a long time ago that the most important thing you can do as an IT…