IT Operations

On the Road: Business Travel, Fall 2008

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ October 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I don’t travel a significant amount in my current position, but when I do, it seems to come in chunks. I’m about half way through a round of travel this fall – mostly business, but with some personal travel mixed in. Six cities, three countries in less than four months. Some observations at the halfway [...]

Desperately Needed Features for eMail Clients/Servers

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Via Knowledge Jolt, here’s an article from KM world with some interesting statistics about folks engaged in enterprise search – but it was a tangential quote from the author that caught my eye. When asking corporate knowledge workers about using public Internet search engines, she found that … … although only 2 percent [of corporate [...]

Power Outage Follow Up – Observations

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ March 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A couple of hours after my

Thoughts During a Power Outage

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ March 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I am sitting in the cube outside my office, connected by wireless to our corporate network in an otherwise darkened office. The power is out – started around 3AM, and it is apparently affecting a large area, not just this building. Kudos to the infrastructure team that strung up the wireless access points here – [...]

Coaching for the day – some basic time management skills

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Most folks will tell you they are woefully short on resources, with way too many requests / tasks / todos coming their way. It’s seems to be a tough thing for folks to Just Say No to all the ad hoc requests that come their way. Same thing goes for the mythical “written requirements” for [...]