Shark Tank

By Sharky

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True tales of IT life, fresh every weekday. Got a story of useless users, hapless bosses, clueless vendors or adventures in the IT trenches? Tell Sharky!

Opinion

A lovely spring day

No animals were harmed in the retelling of this tale.

06/19/2019

Opinion

Time-Machine Tuesday: Get a room!

Automation, with time limits.

06/18/2019

Opinion

Did you try changing the channel?

Not dead. Not even resting.

06/17/2019

Opinion

Flashback Friday: User see, user do

Now I know my ABC’s, tell me what you think of me.

06/14/2019

Opinion

Throwback Thursday: And what could be more important than that?

Nice guys finish first?

06/13/2019

Opinion

A rose by any other acronym …

Was the original name best after all?

06/12/2019

Opinion

Listen to Betty

It’s dysfunction all the way down.

06/11/2019

Opinion

Out of print

Some people are really bad at following instructions.

06/10/2019

Opinion

A ghost in the fax machine

Not the best place for things to get weird.

06/07/2019

Opinion

Throwback Thursday: You don’t own it

That server can’t be in two places at once.

06/06/2019

Opinion

Wayback Wednesday: Educators need some education

Caught in a bureaucratic storm.

06/05/2019

Opinion

There’s support, and then there’s SUPPORT

The perimeter is a little squishy.

06/04/2019

Opinion

Next time, draw him a map

Oh, THAT 3302!

06/03/2019

Opinion

Oh yeah

If only we had met a day earlier.

05/31/2019

Opinion

Throwback Thursday: It happens every January

He never noticed until now.

05/30/2019

Opinion

Ever hear about the chessboard and the rice grains?

Yeah, things start to add up quickly.

05/29/2019

Opinion

Time-Machine Tuesday: But it was only one missing part

They have to save money somewhere, right?

05/28/2019

Opinion

That’s the last acronym I would have expected him not to know

You see, though, he didn’t know the data center was militarized.

05/27/2019

Opinion

Queue-less

That’s the kind of thinking that gets you out of the box.

05/24/2019

Opinion

Throwback Thursday: Lost in translation

Lucky; Mandarin probably would have been even harder to deal with.

05/23/2019

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