http://www.thommitchell.com Navigating through the intersections of business and technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/26/is-troubleshooting-becoming-a-lost-art/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/26/is-troubleshooting-becoming-a-lost-art/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:38:31 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=308 I recently helped solve an intermittent network/server problem for a client. This problem had been confounding the IT staff of this firm for quite a while and although this wasn’t why I was on site it was impacting my ability to complete my specific consulting  work. So I stepped in and started troubleshooting the problem in hopes [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/26/is-troubleshooting-becoming-a-lost-art/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:37:20 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=294 No matter how hard you work to acquire them, some skills eventually become obsolete. But even obsolete skills get dusted off occasionally.  And it’s interesting when those formerly needed skills, that you haven’t used on a daily basis, suddenly become useful at the oddest times and in the oddest places. Formerly as a network administrator I had to pull [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/feed/ 1