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Yearly Archives: 2012

That Doesn’t Go There [pic]

First thing in the morning call End User (who happens to be the President of the company's assistant): My speakers won't work Me: Are they plugged...

Did You Try Turning It On? [story]

Working at a medical practice with surgeons you run into some bratty doctors from time to time. Last week in a huff one calls...

I Don’t Like To Admit It – but [pic]

We actually have a server closet with something similar. In our defense, we don't own the building and the previous building engineer left a...

You ever have that feeling the support guy isn’t listening to you?

Well, in this case, reading what you typed? Republished with permission from TheDailyWTF comes an all-to-common occurrence of a technician on the remote end not...

What was he doing for 4 hours?

Went to a client's office several weeks ago to do some work. Actually clean-up work from the last "IT Expert" they had on retainer. $250...

Work was such a drag

Laptop bag + motorcycle tire = someone trying to score a new laptop? via:

Geek Got Swag: Doug “the Tech Geek” battles rapper

Ha!  This is from the iPhone game "Battle Rap Stars." "Flows so cold they freeze like PCs." [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5umlXvArjq0]

Colossal IT Fail: Accidentally formatting hard disks of 9,000 PCs and 490 servers

HOLY CRAP.  Here is an IT horror story from Rod Trent over at myITforum.com (a great site if you get the chance to head...

This Kind Of Thing Happens To Me ALL The Time [story]

I worked at Best Buy back in 2001 and my third day on the floor a lady calls asking how much our modems were....

Tired of using a mouse AND a keyboard? We have an answer for you!

I just don't know what to think of this thing.  Tell you what, Combimouse: you send me one of these, and I'll review and...

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