I’ve been asked to participate in a panel discussion, titled Build Your IT House, at Smart and Simple Strategies for Small Business, an event sponsored by the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Microsoft on June 4th. The day-long event, to be held at the Washington Athletic Club, will features sessions on small business topics, [...]
We recently had one of our clients begin using a product called AgencyWare. It’s basically a sync tool which allows a company to keep a master address book off-site. I’m not ready to commit to an endorsement at this point: it was a pain to get running and the client hasn’t been using [...]
On Thursday, Qwest announced that it will offer two new fiber-optic Internet connectivity options as part of its Fiber to the Neighborhood (FTTN) initiative. According to PC World and Broadband Reports, the two new levels of service, Quantum and Titanium, will feature download speeds of 12 and 20Mbps and cost $52 and $105, respectively. Both will be [...]
A little background: Earlier this year I kept coming across a particular photo in tech-related marketing materials online and in print. At first, I thought the photo was just generic enough to seem familiar. But through an image search I quickly confirmed this wasn’t the case.
It turns out the photo, featuring a woman in a [...]
We’re in the middle of hiring a system and network engineer and I wanted to share a few tips on how to get noticed if you’re considering applying for a position X-BAR.
I don’t know how these compare to what other companies—large or small—look for, but these are the things that we notice, for better and for [...]
A friend turned me on to Washington State’s Unclaimed Property website. I did a quick search and learned that I had about $200 waiting for me. One was an overpayment on my Seattle City Light bill from my last apartment and the other two were related to class action law-suits against Dell.
After a quick submission [...]
Get your plastic cups, kids, because there is free Wi-Fi all over the place and we now have a map to the party. Thanks to our beloved Lifehacker not only is the truth out there, it is closer than it appears.
For the whole skinny check out this and bask in the radiant glow of our [...]
I have long said that we work with some pretty great clients.
Our clients are enthusiastic about their pursuits and have created positive and engaging work environments—both for employees and for partners like us. And they value quality work.
So I was delighted to open the April edition of Seattle Metropolitan magazine to find not one but two [...]
When using the InfoPath to Word Wizard (part of the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SDK), you may receive the following error when clicking the Finish button “to generate an XSLT file from your document”:
To fix this, you’ll need to manually register the following 3 DLLs provided with the SDK using regsvr32.
html2xhtml.dll
(C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 2003 Developer [...]
We recently had a Qwest DSL installation for one of our small business clients turn in to a bit of a nightmare.
After the circuit was installed, the client reported that they weren’t able to log on to several websites, including their QuickBooks Online account and Hotmail. After some initial diagnosis, it became clear that there [...]