ITIL® and Me

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A few years ago I had written this list up. It may have been around 2012. Unfortunately, I think it went the way of the old ServiceNow community from yesteryear (you know, when it was Service-Now). But alas – I found a remnant of an email with the list. So now I can publish it […]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on my own blog, and while I’ve been busy writing drafts of several ideas, things have been busy and I never seem to be able to finish my posts.  But with SysAdmin Day right around the corner, I couldn’t resist throwing a new post on my blog that […]

I can’t even recall how many times I’ve been in this situation:  A new release goes out and several new features aren’t working properly.  Worse yet, existing functionality is now compromised.  This was a common occurrence during my incident management days, and I hear about it throughout the IT Service Management world.  The absolute worst […]

Dearest Microsoft Outlook,   We’ve been together since, wow…it’s been so long I almost can’t remember…at least since the year 2000, when I began my first IT job at Chemical Abstracts.  Ok, so we did frolic together a little before that time, but those were personal POP email addresses and it didn’t really count.  No, […]