Tim Roe

There’s a long story behind this, but I’d just like to cut to the chase and encourage Butler staff, faculty and students to report any water stained ceiling tile they may find to Facilities.  You see, recently, Web Services was displaced and moved to PB 015 for what would probably be a six-week stint.  Turns out there is a mild mold issue in the room due to some leaky pipes.  So, the team is moving again today.

Anyway, mold CAN cause severe health issues.  What we learned through this process is that Don Borden and the rest of the facilities crew need to KNOW about potential mold threats as soon as possible.  No one at Butler, including Facilities, wants to see faculty, staff or students face adverse health conditions due to something preventable like this.  So, report those water stained ceiling tiles when you see them!  🙂

Information Resources has finally launched its new website.  This is one of the last websites to migrate to the Umbraco CMS and is a long time coming.  It will be exciting to see what the new look, the Umbraco move and the enhancements that brings will do for the Butler IR presence.  Exciting stuff indeed!  🙂

Information Resources Website

What are the Microsoft Office MIME Types?

Good info for us Web Services types.  😉

Bing Maps

Upon installation, Bing Maps 3D prompts you to select whether or not you wish to use Bing Maps as your default search provider.  The language on the prompt is rather aggressive, so I chose to click Learn More and see what’s up.  Making “interfering programs ineffective” seems a little harsh, no?

Butler Creates New Communication College

This project will keep Web Services and Web Marketing hopping for awhile this summer.  🙂

Chris Dunn is leaving Butler tomorrow, but one of the coolest things he turned me onto here recently is the Live Mesh service from Microsoft.  It allows you to synchronize content across multiple devices … and all for free.  I use it to keep a folder named My Stuff (and all of its sub-folders) synchronized between my Mac at home and my Dell laptop here at work.  Once a folder is declared a Live Mesh shared folder, the same folder appears on all devices in the mesh.  So, when I save a file to this folder on my laptop, it also shows up on my Mac at home.  And, if I save a file to the folder on my Mac, I can access it later on my laptop in the same folder.  Also, you can access your Live Mesh folders via a Web browser, if you’re not using one of the devices already setup in your mesh.  Pretty cool stuff.  Give it a try and see what you think.  You will need to setup a Windows Live ID, but that’s pretty quick and painless.

Link to Live Mesh Website