Archive for October, 2006
Google acquires JotSpot
In: News
31 Oct 2006JotSpot (cool wiki-based collaborative work application suite)
+ Google (cool, influential, though beginning to look scary super-company)
= Microsoft Office killer??
IT TechTip: Outlook Navigation Pane
In: techtip
31 Oct 2006The default setup in Outlook 2003 has a Navigation pane that runs along the left side of the screen. It contains a button for each type of Outlook folder:
-Mail
-Calendar
-Contacts
-Tasks
You’ll notice that as you click on those buttons, you get different context-specific options. For example, clicking on the Contacts button gives you various viewing [...]
Cinnamon gelato tasting notes
In: Food
30 Oct 2006Zingerman’s Creamery new Cinnamon Gelato tasting notes:
“Starts very sweet, nice long finish, with a little bit of heat at the end – nice mouth feel, no granularity.”
- IT Dept
Planned (maybe) power outage
In: Work updates
29 Oct 2006Sunday. A historic house is planned to be moved down 5th, right by our building and we’ve been informed the power will go out for a ’short duration’ between 7am to 10pm. We were unable to verify whether that included the Deli or just ATS and we have no way to learn whether it will [...]
Bodies in the dark
In: Work updates
29 Oct 2006No, not a halloween party. I received a call from Allen at 4 pm on Saturday saying the power was down at Mail Order and judging from the signals out at the intersection it was an entire area outage. I was at home getting ready for a halloween party – popped open my laptop, verified [...]
IT TechTip: Outlook Reading Pane
In: techtip
26 Oct 2006In Outlook 2003 the default setup has a Reading Pane (also known as a preview window) on the right side of the screen. This is a change from older versions of Outlook that had the pane on the bottom of the screen. Microsoft felt the new way made it easier to read the message being [...]
Cookie Showdown
In: Good Stuff
25 Oct 2006Using the Deli’s Halloween Spooky Cookie Kit, the IT department created some designer snacks! And now the winners…
Most Creative Design award goes to Brian’s Stonehenge Cookie!
Most Consumer-Friendly Cookie award goes to Billie’s Classic Cookie!
Most Effective Use of Resources award goes to Elph’s Smiley Cookie!
Most Inspired award goes to Craig’s Have-and-Have-Not Cookie!
Yummiest Design award goes to [...]
Yep – file management with previews
In: Geek Finds
14 Oct 2006http://www.yepthat.com/
Looks pretty cool.
Also organizes scanned documents.
Radical Service Improvement: Talk > Type > Ticket!
In: Improvements
13 Oct 2006We love that the ZCob is using our online Helpdesk System to directly file service requests and trouble tickets. But what about the wide array of requests that come in by person or by phone? Enter: Talk > Type > Ticket. Your Zing Geeks type up those requests and enter them into our [...]
Proposed D$E Most Radical Service System Improvement
In: Improvements
13 Oct 2006The IT department has a working project board that rocks in so many ways…
Every project that each of us is involved in is listed with a half sheet of paper showing percent complete and due date and other standard stuff but also includes compelling reasons, next action step, and extra mile. These sheets are tacked [...]
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- John Reed: A cauliflower crust!?!? Do tell, do tell!! Sounds yummy! [...]
- Billie: Ignite is an event featuring 5-minute presentations by regular people about things they are passiona [...]
- nicole Robichaud: what is ignite a2 [...]
- Billie: Oh geeeeeez Juleen! [...]
- juleen: This is a lot more fun-loving than the body parts bakery in Thailand. Creepy, yet amazing. Warning: [...]