Each time it dumps snow in Colorado (October?!) I find a certain request coming up more and more often… companies want remote access to their server so people can work from home. Can’t make it to school? Well the teacher can email you assignments. Can’t make it into work? A little SFTP magic and you’re working on that file from home.

While this is no doubt good for business productivity and similar technologies save me a lot of trips to clients, it seems the concept of the carefree snow day is a victim of improving technologies. Tunnel into work via the internet? The only tunneling you should be doing today is in real snow, not Snow Leopard!

So in the spirit of sledding and snow angels, I present to you an excuse which just might get you off the hook and into the cold powder and hot cocoa…

“Um, my internet is out. Comcast said something about the storm taking down my local node and they’re working on it.”

Did it work? OK, now get the sled dogs ready and for the love of consistency, don’t post to Facebook!

I’m starting this blog on a whim. Sure, on occasion I’ve considered starting a blog based on my experiences as a Mac user and technician, but today it moved forward from the back burner only because I accidentally wrote some content. You see with the release of Snow Leopard just two days off, I thought I’d contribute to my local user group a posting about how I would be going about the install. I started organizing my thoughts about it and ended up with a document which would become my first content for this blog: “6 Things to Consider Before Installing Snow Leopard”.

I hope the design-savvy amongst you will forgive the quickly thrown-together Wordpress site and skip right to the first juicy bit. Enjoy!