Tim Long

Forever in Electric Dreams
The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

Browse by Tags

All Tags » TiGra Networks » Business (RSS)
Stupid Email Disclaimers
Email disclaimers are one of my pet hates. They are, on the whole, rather ill considered . Here’s a fairly typical one that I received today in a marketing email: This Email any attachment may contain information which is confidential.  If you are...
Introducing LiveCRM.biz
TiGra Networks is proud to announce our new joint venture with Master Place Ltd, which we are calling LiveCRM.biz . Based on Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management, our solution provides a quick and easy way to revolutionise your sales, marketing...
Why TiGra Networks Chose TrixBox For Our Telephony Offering
In November 2007 TiGra Networks embarked on a project to evaluate various digital telephony solutions, with a view to implementing our own infrastructure and, in the process, gain the necessary knowledge and experience to offer digital telephony solutions...
Scheduled Broadband Upgrade
TiGra Networks is having a broadband upgrade this week so we'll be offline for perhaps a day while that happens. We'll be completely off the air for a while and there will be a bit of disruption while we install the new equipment and update our...
Instant Messenger Viruses
It seems there is an instant messenger virus at large at the moment. The virus sends messages similar to these (the URLs are deliberately obfuscated): "Hot or Not? hxxp://mymsngallery.my.funpic de/viewimage.php?youremail@someplace.com" or "this...
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Go Gold
The 2008 launch wave is gaining momentum. Microsoft announced a few hours ago that both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 have been released to manufacturing. Windows Vista service pack 1 will likely impact most users in the short term...
Why You Shouldn’t Forward Chain Email
I received the following email today, which is clearly a rather crude hoax: From: <deleted> @hotmail.co.uk To: <24 MSN/Hotmail addresses removed to protect privacy> Subject: PLEASE READ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:48:22 +0000 Hey it is tara...
The Kind of Company I Aspire To Be
Joel does it again. He recently gave a talk at Yale University where he himself studied computer science and graduated in 1991. On his blog " Joel on Software " he describes some of his history and what was going through his mind when he formed...
» Social Networking in Business
"To generalize is to be foolish" I always say. But in general, there are two types of employer. There are those who value their employees as an asset, pay them well and give them the best tools to do their jobs and develop themselves. Then there...
Saying "No"
I was recently approached by a local company who wanted me to work as a subcontractor providing IT support to their customers. I would have to appear to be part of their company and not use my own company name and they wanted me to substantially discount...
UK SBSers Fly The Flag
At last, some UK partners are starting to promote the SBSC 'blue badge'. BMS has a nice bit of signwriting on their new van. Here at TiGra Networks, we've just taken out an advertisement (reproduced here on the right) in Business in Focus magazine, which...