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Shorttakes: “detagging” oneself on Facebook; and the universal cleaning power of baby wipes 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
In the absence of a “proper” blog post, a few short takes based on things I’ve discovered these last few weeks… “Detagging” Over the last few months, I’ve been notified that someone has tagged me in...
Core solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 brain dump 21 Jul 2013 | 08:58 pm
I’ve got an exam tomorrow. I figured that, as I’m employed as a manager and not an administrator, my best chance at passing the Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (70-341) exam was to ta...
Great service, great bike, great experience! 21 Jul 2013 | 02:09 am
I’ve written before about the interest in cycling I developed last year but I wasn’t able to buy a road bike at the time. A few weeks ago, that all changed as I found myself attracted to a beautiful p...
Exchange and Outlook resource roundup 19 Jul 2013 | 08:11 pm
I mentioned that I’ve been attending an Exchange Server 2013 training course, when I wrote earlier in the week about creating dynamic distribution groups using custom directory attributes. Our course...
London cyclist (for a few days) 19 Jul 2013 | 04:22 am
As I’m staying in London for my training course this week, I thought I’d try and offset the hotel breakfasts and pizzas/corner-shop evening meals (I struggle to get a hotel restaurant meal on my expen...
Working with Exchange 2013 dynamic distribution groups based on custom directory attributes 17 Jul 2013 | 01:15 pm
I’m attending a training course this week (getting back up to speed with Exchange using the Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 course) and I found that one of the labs wasn’t working. I ...
Fighting back to the spammers: charging for removal of blog spam links… 17 Jul 2013 | 01:26 am
Right from (almost) the start, this blog has suffered from spam. I guess it just goes with the territory but I’ve written in the past about people who’ve left spam comments and then found Google’s ind...
Business intelligence required… 16 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Up and down the country, businesses are running on Excel, instead of using a proper business intelligence (or even management information) system. The one I look after is no different but, as I pieced...
Margin, or markup? 12 Jul 2013 | 01:35 am
A big chunk of my current role involves trying to convert a capability unit (with some great skills in the team, it has to be said) into a profitable business. That’s not necessarily easy – changing a...
Fixing Feedly 9 Jul 2013 | 01:57 am
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about switching to Feedly from Google Reader. Since then, Google has switched off Reader – and my feeds went AWOL in the process. Thankfully, Feedly are taking t...
