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Thick Support and Training

May 29, 2007 – 7:14 am

Getting asked to take a look at a computer is something I dread. Past experiences [1, 2] have generally been frustrating due to low levels of IT literacy. I don’t blame the users - manufacturers and sellers market their products as plug-and-play and self-maintaining. User expectations are too high. Who would buy a car not [...]

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Flirty needs help

May 1, 2007 – 1:45 pm

Flirty made a plea for help in a comment on my previous post. She wants to set-up her own domain and move her blog there. Now we’re all nice folks so we’re going to help aren’t we? Of course we are. So this is the way it’s going to work: I will set down some [...]

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Stuff of all kinds

April 29, 2007 – 11:46 am

Moving the site from WordPress.com to my own had me very excited for a few days there. Maybe it’s a man-thing or a techie-thing, but I was as worked up as a lorry-load of leprechauns at a mini-skirt convention.
Okay, there were so many things that should have worked but didn’t. In the corporate world these [...]

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Back in business … sort of

April 24, 2007 – 8:32 pm

Sorry about not posting for a while - I’ve been up the last few nights nursing a very sick database. It is getting better. A bit of a cough, but nothing serious. We may both get some sleep tonight. I need it. I’m more tired than the Michelin Man.
The database is just 3 days old, [...]

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I need help

April 18, 2007 – 4:51 am

I need help. Okay, okay. I hear ya. Regular readers have been thinking that for ages.But I do need some help from you guys. Nothing too serious or difficult.
I’ve been lumped with doing a paper on the usability of Web 2.0 applications. In this context, Web 2.0 means Blogger, WordPress, Flikr, Feedburner etc. Get the [...]

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Pinned down and passed out

April 16, 2007 – 5:23 am

Everything has a password or a PIN* these days. I have PINs for bank cards, my house alarm (and three neighbours’ alarms), one to reset the car radio, a PIN and a PUK for my phone. I’ve go a PPN (which used to be a PRSI number), a student ID number and one for online [...]

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