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

Robert Owen

Technology leader and professional musician with a background in building and operating complex systems. Writes occasionally about leadership, technology, and music.

Fresh and New

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It’s still a work-in-progress but, as you can see things have changed up a bit around here. I have been sporting the same ole look for the site for quite a while and decided that it was time to update. My blog has become an important section of the site and I needed a way

New Start

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This, I guess, can be tagged as my first “Official” entry… Getting ready to make some MAJOR changes to my main site: Owen Consulting and also to: Southern Brass Quintet Well… In preparing for the new changes at the main site I though I would go ahead and work a version of the new banner into this Blog design. I … Read more

Large Hadron Collider

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CERN's Large Hadron Collider… Info via Wikipedia: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV/particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV/nucleus. The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the … Read more

Unistall Norton Network Antivirus Without a Password

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Here’s a quick “How-to”… Symantec AntiVirus Clients, especially Corporate Edition Clients, can be installed remotely and managed via a Symantec AntiVirus Server. When a Symantec AntiVirus Client is managed, it prompts for password when you attempt to uninstall the client via local computer Control Panel Add or Remove Program applet. If you don’t know or have forgotten the password, then … Read more

Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

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To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

  1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
  2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise your Voice!
  3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.
  4. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks . Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
  5. In the Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write ‘ For Ma rijuana’
  6. Skip down the hall Rather Than Walk and see how many looks you get.
  7. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
  8. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is ‘To Go’.
  9. Sing Along At The Opera. It can’t make it any worse!
  10. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can’t Attend Their Party because You have a headache.
  11. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream ‘I Won! I Won!!’
  12. When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking lot, Yelling ‘Run For Your Lives! They’re Loose!’
  13. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, ‘Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.’

And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity…

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PC Boots to Blinking Cursor

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This is more of a note for myself than anything… If I put it here, I will have an easier time finding what I did if/when I run across this problem again. Had to reboot a working PC. No updates installed, no new software of any kind installed. It just simply locked up and needed a reboot. On reboot, after … Read more

Xbox 360 Junkie?

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Are you an Xbox live Junkie??? Love playing your games on-line? Well, if you do then you will like this. I just read a tweet from @digitarius over at Twitter about this deal he found on Amazon. It appears that they have Xbox Live Gold memberships on sale.. Thirteen months for only $29.97! So, hurry now while they last !