ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Friday Funny: The Afterlife

Hello everybody!!!  Sorry for no Friday Funny post last week…   It appears my friends really did have other things to do as no one sent me anything new.  (Go figure!  Bunch of over achievers!)  Couple that with the fact that I was “Busier than a one armed paper hanger” and you have my excuse. So, here for your Friday Funny … Read more

Windows 7 error 86

Windows 7 & Windows 2000  –  Error 86 when mapping drives. One of my upgrades this week to Windows 7 was from a Windows XP laptop. Following  the steps I outlined in my previous post the initial process was a breeze!  No problems at all!!  Simple, some would say,  and as everything else goes as soon as “they” said it … Read more

Windows 7 Clean Install from Upgrade

Windows 7 seems to be a hit! Since it’s release on October 22, I’ve installed it in one form or another MANY, times probably twelve in the last 6 days.   The first couple of upgrades concerned me slightly because of the indefinite answer on whether or not you could do a clean install from the upgrade disk. I had a … Read more

Friday Funny: Redneck in NY

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYBODY!!!   Today’s Friday Funny is yet another product of my e-mail. A Redneck from Tennessee walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Bakersfield on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a depositor of … Read more

Another Scam Attempt

Hi all!  Got another scam attempt in “Ye Ole” e-mail today.  Now this one is pretty obvious but,  I thought I would go ahead and post it in one more attempt to thwart the evil doings of these stinking Scammers.  As always,  if you get this e-mail (or anything that resembles this e-mail)  delete it!!  Do not respond, do not … Read more

Friday Funny: Replacement Windows

Howdy all!  Hope you had a good week.  Today’s Friday Funny comes, once again, through my e-mail and it’s a hoot! REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with that expensive double-pane energy efficient kind, and today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them.  He was complaining that the work had been … Read more

Friday Funny: A little Instruction

Happy Friday Everybody!!  I hope you all had an acceptable work week…  Like usual, mine was highly…  diverse.  Yes,  I think  diverse is a good description.  Some might say… crazy?  No,  I don’t think it qualifies as “Crazy”… I think diverse leaves more to the imagination. Anyway,  this week’s Friday Funny is a long one but, I find it to … Read more