Encarta Opens Its Articles … to Everyone

CNN: Not to read, that is, but to edit. Encarta (owned by MSN) follows in the footsteps of Wikipedia to allow readers to edit content to correct mistakes or enter omissions. Encarta, however, will have much stricter guidelines than Wikipedia and will hire an additional thousand editors to check content users submit.
Information truly has changed [...]

The Hazards of Working Tech Support

If you’re the type of tech support that goes to people’s office to fix things (like I sometimes am), you run in to certain unavoidable hazards. The hazards invariably change constantly and are too numerous to be fully documented.
The Keyboard. This veritable jungle of unrecognizable hazards breeds rancid germs, moist acids, and other biohazards. Each [...]

Safe Blogging or How to Complain About Your Boss and Get Away With It

Blogging may get you in trouble. Your boss may not appreciate the sexy poses of yourself in uniform. Nor may he appreciate your harsh comments about his wife’s ugly dress. You’re free to say what you want, but there’s nothing to stop your boss from firing you over it.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published an [...]

Silly Mystic is back up!

I’m elated! I can post again! I’ve missed this blog. Without it, I’m a lost chicken in the dessert, looking for bugs, but unable to cook them.
I’ve learned some things from this whole escapade. Never stay with a host you don’t trust anymore; that you know sucks. And if you do stay with that said [...]