Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I used to say I was a drummer first and a technology guy second, but who am I kidding? I play probably 8-10 times a year and practice only when the band does, which is only slightly more than we actually gig … so I’m not improving, I’m just in maintenance mode. So, l guess …

A customer asked me to summarize my approach to helping people find my business (www.itgroove.net) online.   I used to do a fair amount of print advertising to build ‘brand’. But it was extremely expensive and had a short shelf life (before it hit the recycle bin). So, over the years, I’ve been bulking up …

Maybe I’m a little quirky, but I have watched this short video at least a dozen times and I still giggle when I think about it. It’s family friendly too…   Guaranteed to turn a frown, upside down…     Video Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMjsIVX8kWs

This seemed a worthy 30 second video/overview to share as I run into this enough that others must too. I needed to take an existing spreadsheet, that had several sheets of ‘users’ where the Username and Password were in the same column/field. I needed to separate them into separate columns, with minimal effort (read: lazy) …

I get asked enough, I figured I better tell the story (actually I did elsewhere, so I’m being lazy and just copying and pasting the details here).   Well, I got a tattoo the other day (Friday, July 11, 2008).  As I’m sure anyone will tell you, it is a personal experience and so I …

I never thought I’d be blogging about Office 2000 (frankly, I don’t recall if I would have known what a blog was, back then…). Anyways, this was a strange enough one to resolve today that perhaps it will help someone else (and/or maybe it applied to later versions of Word, Excel and Office).   Our …

Darren turned me on to this site today. Pretty cool, easy to use and easy to determine how much UPS plans to rip me off when a vendor insists on using them for providing shipping to Canada (sometimes their shipping/duty fees are more than the item being shipped for crying out loud – I don’t …

Considering Rogers is going to start charging me (us) for SMS Text messages inbound, and considering they do a really lousy job of reducing the amount of text spam I get, I took it upon myself to find a reference of Rogers text commands that can be used to block incoming garbage, so here’s the …

I’m a SharePoint fan (and presumably one of the reasons M$ expressed interest in awarding me the MVP, of which I’m very proud of the consideration).  Maybe I’m even a bit of a homer about it (a homer, for all you non-hockey fans is someone that backs up your team and only sees the positive, …

One of my (and my wife’s) dearest friends, Bret (aka  Barf, Bart, etc.) has finally published some of his fantastic works on his newly revamped website.  Not only is he showing off his terrific sense of humour (desert dry, the way I like it), he’s showing off his technical abilities (with the quality of the …