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One Hundred Pushups

One Hundred Pushups

A while back a bunch of people were twittering about the 100 pushup challenge. Thanksgiving was the catalyst for me. I began my quest for better health about a week ago. 

The premise of the challenge is quite simple. It is a six week program, that if followed, you can do 100 consecutive good form push ups at the end of the program. I am in decent enough shape now, despite not visiting the gym as often as I should. During the initial test I erked out 31 pushups. I knew there was another teir at 30, so that was my goal. I have been tracking my progress here http://spf13.com/pushups

I also convinced the entire Portero Tech team to join me in my quest, or at least the start of it. Some of them are also tracking their progress http://justinhileman.info/pushups.

How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple

Hint: It has nothing to do with touch screens.

While RIM scrambles to create the next greatest device, or their "iPhone killer" it needs to recognize that it's no longer about the device. RIM don't you remember that touchscreens aren't new.. Palm had them back in the 90's ... before you crushed them.

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Cisco Systems Gigabit Switch Router.

Image via Wikipedia

At Portero we had an issue with our network.

I know enough about networking to understand the basics. I actually used to work on the IOS back during the dawn of the internet. Though things have changed since then, the biggest issue is I don't remember enough to fix network configuration issues on the router level.

Promotion

Permit me to shamelesly announce my promotion to Chief Information Officer at Portero Inc.

Why are You Still Shopping Offline?

Today I visited one of the largest national office supply outlets. I had a specific purpose in mind. I needed to pickup 2 wireless routers and 1 audio cable. What transpired caused me to wonder why anyone does any offline shopping anymore.

Implementing a Corporate Wiki

It seems all of a sudden, the two buzz words in the corporate IT world are wiki and blog. Corporate wikis are emerging as cheap, intelligent, flexible systems for shared-document collaboration and content management. Because they are browser based, wikis are quite easy to implement and deploy.

The wiki works well in the corporate world as it solves two problematic areas, the need for internal collaboration and document management.