Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Words of Wisdom To My Kids
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
Friday, April 13, 2012
Have a sense of humor? Become an IT worker.
April 13, 2012
What’s the most bizarre question you’ve been asked in your role as an IT professional?Whatever your answer is, I hope it equals – or even tops – the hilarious examples given by IT workers who were polled in a survey about strange requests.
Developed by Robert Half Technology, the survey is based on phone interviews with more than 1,400 CIOs from U.S. companies with 100 or more employees. Responses also came from help-desk managers.
The question: “What is the strangest or most unusual request you or a member of your help desk or technical support team has ever received?"
Some response from CIOs:
"Can I turn on the coffee pot with my computer?"
"How do I clean cat hair out of my computer fan?""I dropped my phone in the toilet. What should I do?"
"How do I pirate software?"
And among help desk professionals:
"Can you help me fix my toilet?"
"We need you to fix the microwave in the lunchroom."
"Can you help me repair a washing machine?"
"How do I start the Internet?"
"Will you show me how to use the mouse?"
Friday, April 6, 2012
The "Great Attractor": What is the Milky Way Speeding Towards at 14 Million MPH?
Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14 million miles) per hour. But they couldn’t pinpoint exactly what or where it is.
A huge volume of space that includes the Milky Way and super-clusters of galaxies is flowing towards a mysterious, gigantic unseen mass named mass astronomers have dubbed "The Great Attractor," some 250 million light years from our Solar System.
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are the dominant structures in a galaxy cluster called the Local Group which is, in turn, an outlying member of the Virgo supercluster. Andromeda--about 2.2 million light-years from the Milky Way--is speeding toward our galaxy at 200,000 miles per hour.
This motion can only be accounted for by gravitational attraction, even though the mass that we can observe is not nearly great enough to exert that kind of pull. The only thing that could explain the movement of Andromeda is the gravitational pull of a lot of unseen mass--perhaps the equivalent of 10 Milky Way-size galaxies--lying between the two galaxies.
Meanwhile, our entire Local Group is hurtling toward the center of the Virgo cluster at one million miles per hour.
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