Secret Diaries..... http://fingleandanker.com whats behind the wrapper? Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:58:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Secret Diary of an IT technician (Chapter 7: Appreciation) http://fingleandanker.com/2010/03/09/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-7-appreciation/ http://fingleandanker.com/2010/03/09/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-7-appreciation/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:58:56 +0000 josiahb http://fingleandanker.com/?p=403 IT staff as a general rule suffer from a lack of appreciation by their colleagues when things are working right, this is something that anyone working in a support role has to get used too but its a fairly bitter pill to swallow.  What makes it harder to deal with of course is the level

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As the new

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2010/03/05/directions/feed/ 0 The Secret diary of an IT Technician (Chapter 6: Where did the time go?) http://fingleandanker.com/2010/03/04/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-6-where-did-the-time-go/ http://fingleandanker.com/2010/03/04/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-6-where-did-the-time-go/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:03:56 +0000 josiahb http://fingleandanker.com/?p=392 OK….  So its been a while.  Again.

Since the end of August I’ve been busy though, and so has this sites other contributor who has gone from being a trainee teacher to an NQT in her first full time teaching job with Ofsted showing up to inspect the school with very little notice.  We’ve moved into

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2010/03/04/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-6-where-did-the-time-go/feed/ 0 The Secret diary of an IT Technician (Chapter 5: Adding Letters) http://fingleandanker.com/2009/08/24/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-5-adding-letters/ http://fingleandanker.com/2009/08/24/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-5-adding-letters/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:00:56 +0000 josiahb http://fingleandanker.com/?p=363 The last time you heard from me was back in March when I’d just passed the CompTIA A+ Essentials exam, in the months since I’ve added the A+ IT Technician exam to the collection making me officially CompTIA A+ certified an I’m working hard on the Network+ (using the new 2009 objectives so woohoo! no

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2009/08/24/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-5-adding-letters/feed/ 0 The Secret diary of an IT Technician (Chapter 4: Certifiable) http://fingleandanker.com/2009/03/04/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-4-certifiable/ http://fingleandanker.com/2009/03/04/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-4-certifiable/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:00:03 +0000 josiahb http://fingleandanker.com/?p=318 Those of you who have been really paying attention will have spotted an interesting little titbit in my twitter updates, you see last week I passed the wonders of the CompTIA A+ Essentials exam.  This brings me one step close to having a concrete record of my IT skills, not bad

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2009/03/04/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-4-certifiable/feed/ 0 The Secret Diary of an IT Technician (Chapter 3: Where did all the money go?) http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/20/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-3-where-did-all-the-money-go/ http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/20/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-3-where-did-all-the-money-go/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:02:44 +0000 josiahb http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/20/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-3-where-did-all-the-money-go/ I’m still thinking through the consequences of a staff briefing at work yesterday which contained mention of two of the most unpleasant terms you can hear in your working life, redundancy and pay cut. We are officially feeling the effects of the economic hole that British banks have dug for us, which is unsurprising

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/20/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-3-where-did-all-the-money-go/feed/ 0 The Secret Diary of an IT Technician (Chapter 2) http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/09/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-2/ http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/09/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-2/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:52:05 +0000 josiahb http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/09/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-2/ Having difficulty writing this, largely because the majority of IT support stories have already been told elsewhere. The truth is most of the problems any IT Technician has to deal with on a day to day basis are down to a lack of user education, that’s why you see so many ‘hilarious’ user error tales

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2009/02/09/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-2/feed/ 0 The secret diary of an IT technician (Chapter 1) http://fingleandanker.com/2009/01/27/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-1/ http://fingleandanker.com/2009/01/27/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-1/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:39:02 +0000 josiahb http://fingleandanker.com/2009/01/27/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-1/ Hello and welcome to the first chapter of the Secret diary of an IT technician, a story of the trials and tribulations of working in IT for a small travel company in the UK. I suppose the best place to begin is the beginning……

[Cue flashback music and weird wibbly screen effect]

I got into this

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2009/01/27/the-secret-diary-of-an-it-technician-chapter-1/feed/ 0 The Secret Diary of a Trainee Teacher (Chapter 6) http://fingleandanker.com/2009/01/15/the-secret-diary-of-a-trainee-teacher-chapter-6/ http://fingleandanker.com/2009/01/15/the-secret-diary-of-a-trainee-teacher-chapter-6/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:45:41 +0000 funkymonarch http://fingleandanker.com/?p=130 There comes a time when you hear songs on the radio/ipod that seem to so resemble your life. For example right now the songs I would chose to sum up my time at university would be Frustration, On My Own Again, All By Myself and The Drugs Don’t Work. Don’t worry people, I’m not about

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]]> http://fingleandanker.com/2009/01/15/the-secret-diary-of-a-trainee-teacher-chapter-6/feed/ 0 The Secret Diary of a Trainee Teacher (Chapter 5) http://fingleandanker.com/2008/11/19/the-secret-diary-of-a-trainee-teacher-chapter-5/ http://fingleandanker.com/2008/11/19/the-secret-diary-of-a-trainee-teacher-chapter-5/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:46 +0000 funkymonarch http://fingleandanker.com/?p=65 Ohhh baby! I passed all three QTS Skills Tests! If you’re taking yours any time soon the Numeracy is really not as bad as it is made out to be on the TDA website. I still don’t understand the ease that is the Literacy Skills Test but who cares I passed it!This month is getting

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