Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.

Hopefully the price will be in the below $40 range soon so I can pick this up.

I’m still pretty skeptical if this will come out in time. Blizzard is really bad about this. I mean WoW was in beta for like two years, and I specifically didn’t buy Diablo II because they kept jerking us around on the release date. However Diablo, and Diablo II and their respective expansions are really…

The speed read is done! I spent about three hours of my weekend reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and then promptly went to go see the movie. I had read the book as quickly as possible because of a challenge my brother gave me. I will once again inflict my thoughts on something…

Tomorrow my sister is taking me and other members of the family to see the first Hunger Games movie. The Twilight Saga isn’t even done with yet and they’ve got a new teenage girl movie ready to go. I’m not certain the author intended this for teenage girls, but that’s the buzz I’ve heard. Now…

I’ve on several occasions had to do some end-user training on various subjects. ShoreTel phone and Communicator usage has been the big thing, but also how to use Outlook and stuff like that. I’ve found one very important thing about doing these trainings: The user has to want to learn what you’re teaching. This should…

We recently added a bevy of mobile users to our company, and they’ve presented us with some unique needs. One of those needs was a bit unexpected. Our users needed to print in the field. I’ve always been a big opponent to mobile printing, it’s typically a waste of money in my mind. But we…

I’ve been to a lot of small two and three-man shops over the years and it’s rare for anyone to be truly paperless. A few of the places I’ve worked for have been paperless long before that was a thing. They typically do this without any need of any sort of special ‘Document Management’ system.…

The Windows 8 customer preview came out yesterday and I decided to test it out. Posted my intentions to Facebook and immediately a friend of mine, who really knows his stuff, informed me that it’s Windows ME given new life. This did not bode well, but I thought how bad could it be? Windows ME…

I’ve written about backups a little before, though I can’t quite remember where I posted the information. It’s been a while. I know a lot of places don’t have backups at all. Their data is protected by wishes and miracles. I don’t think people realize how lucky they are to never have a hard drive…

I was beating myself up all weekend about missing a post Friday. Then I went and missed one yesterday too. I’ve figured out that my idea of posting these at 4:30 every day wasn’t the best as people tend to come in at that time and ask about last minute problems. Sometimes these problems are…