…if only because I’m on my first full day at EDUCAUSE 2008 in Orlando, Fla & I have barely been able to string 5 minutes together to catch my breath. I feel like Frank Sinatra in On The Town on his first shore leave in NYC. Only with less dancing.
So, in brief, here’s where I’ve been today:
EDUCAUSE 2008 Summary Itinerary for Matthew Dricker
- General Session: The Unique Human Brain: Clues from Neurology
- Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall – Sponsored by TeamDynamix
- Corporate Workshop: Apple –
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Our weekly Atrium Help Desk has proven to be an extremely popular event. The convenient location, the comfortable couch, the cookies. And, happily, you folks seem to enjoy it, too! (It must be because we share our cookies.)
But we are not content to let a good thing go un-modified.
After extensive polling and data analysis (and one of us having a conflict with Tuesdays this term) Your Friendly Computing Services Team [snip...]
After an operating system like XP has been out for — what is it now? 17 years? — it can seem as though all the great little tricks and tips have been exposed. Well, it can seem this way to me, anyway, since I do this for a living.
But sometimes there’s a little nugget that happens to arise out of the blue making you wish you had know about it years ago. To wit:
When copying a folder from one location to another, if any files [snip...]
What comes once every 4 years, is eagerly anticipated country – even world – wide, and gives us a glimmer of hope for a better tomorrow?
The US presidential election, of course! Oh, wait. Sorry. That was for an entirely separate blog post…
Leap Year Day, February 29th, of course! February, normally the shortest month of the year, on leap years remains still the shortest month of the year only one day less short. If only all planetary orbital time adjusting could be this fun!
And so, to [snip...]
In case you missed it, yesterday was the inaugural session of our latest attempt to scale the heights of accessible customer service: IT Atrium Help Desk!
Every Tuesday and Thursday from 3pm to 4pm one or more members of Your Friendly Computing Services Team will set up a satellite branch of our support office in the Glycofi Atrium. We hope this will provide easy, visible, and immediate access to computing assistance without having to visit our offices or [snip...]
