Max's Miscellaneous Musings

My one or two regular readers will recall that I attended a vSphere 4.1 course last week.  It was pretty full-on, being that I knew close to nothing about the product before attending.  I got a lot out of it.  I've decided this is the way to go, career-… more »

All sorts of things have been happening, work-wise.  It's reminded me that I need to keep my skills up to date.  I've decided it's time to update my MCSE to an MCITP:EA.  I've also decided I need to get some other specialties under my belt.  To this end… more »

Some time ago, I wrote a post called Big Brother is watching, in which I commented on an article that described how the Dalai Lama's email server was hacked.  It pointed the finger at the Chinese government, and I made some sarcastic comment about how Bi… more »

You'll recall that I recently posted about how my site is now 95% operational, but that visitors to http://www.maxxxie.net/ were being redirected to a page that didn't exist.  It turns out that "visitors", plural, wasn't quite right.  It was "visitor", s… more »

Yay, a new version of Firefox.  I'm not as excited about it as you might think.  It's more one of those "meh" "Yays" instead of a truly ecstatic "Yay". The new version of FF decided to change the way it deals with opening new tabs.  I like control-clic… more »

Dear end user:  When you ring our after-hours emergency service to log a production-affecting emergency, it would be nice if you were actually having a production-stopping emergency.  When I drop everything and call you, only to learn that you (one singl… more »

The thing about iPhone apps is that the more you look, the more you find.  After a week of owning the iPhone, I've so far loaded: Google CommBank Convert Everything White pages Yellow pages Cyclemeter SitOrSquat National Public Toilet Map Toil… more »

MaxBabe got herself an iPhone on new year's eve.  I have long maintained that a phone is a phone is a phone, and should be nothing but a phone. That was until I met the iPhone.  This marvellous piece of technology has turned me around.  And so, in a fi… more »

Windows 7 is not too bad, as a client OS goes.  But I've really been missing the Quick Launch toolbar.  It's seemingly been replaced with a "pin to taskbar" feature, which is OK, I guess, but NOT the Quick Launch.  I've been living with this for a few da… more »

This one's popped up occasionally at work, and now at home in my WinXP-trying-to-talk-to-Win7 network:  "Not enough storage space is available to process this command".  I've seen messages like this that have ultimately wound up being related to group me… more »