Kindle=Hitchhiker’s Guide?
Gotta love this comic from XKCD.
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Office 14 Delayed
Look out for Excel bug. Get yours fixed. No Office 14 until 2010. Gmail has another outage. Meanwhile everyone still marching into the cloud. Steve Jobs is 54. Google jumps on the anti-MSFT EU case with Mozilla and Opera. Micron lays off 2000. Dick Tracy watch from LG. I list the MIT 10 Emerging Technologies for 2009. Can you spell bogus?
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/144790/tech5-144790-02-24-2009.mp3]
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What I Learned From One Hundred Pushups
I blogged previously about one hundred pushups. I started the program in October and am finally ready to discuss my experiences with it.
One hundred pushups is a six week program consisting of three workouts per week of various numbers of sets and reps per set. The basic idea is that at the end of six weeks you should be able to do one hundred pushups in one set. There is a caveat that if you fail to meet a specified number of pushups at the end of each week you must repeat that week so it’s possible to take longer than six weeks.
The first three weeks went very well. I worked my way up to be able to do over 20 good form pushups in a single set. In week four I hit a snag and had to repeat the week. I also had to repeat week five. And though I started week six I never quite completed it. I was only able to complete more than 46 pushups in a single set (the requirement for moving on to week six) one time.
After taking a couple of weeks off to recover from a sinus infection I started the program again from week four. I got through weeks four and five in one try but stalled on week six again. I never quite finished the program.
At the end of this experience I noticed that may upper body had changed. Though my chest was far from chiseled and could still not be defined as buff it had definitely changed. The workouts helped work off some of the fat and build a little muscle. I still have a way to go but this program definitely got me on my way.
I have decided that i will continue doing a pushup program but rather than set my sites on one hundred pushups I will take just one week from the program (week four) and repeat it every week. Week four was when things started to get difficult for me so I figure this will make a challenging workout that is not too exhausting. Will I move on to week five or six at some point? Maybe. But my expectations have changed from building to one hundred pushups to just doing something. If my body changed without finishing the program then this should be sufficient to continue the change that the program has already started.
The next step is going to be to add the two hundred situps program to the mix. The two hundred situps program is to situps what one hundred pushups is to pushups. After the one hundred pushups lesson I’ve adjusted my expectations. I’ll give the program my all and go as far as I can go with the hope that I can get to two hundred. But I won’t be let down if I never finish week six. And when it’s all over I’ll pick one week that was challenging but doable and add it to a regular workout. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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MSFT: Elevate America!
Microsoft asks laid off employees to give some money back. Look for the green comet tonight, if you can! Apple may do a Netbook for $599. Why so expensive? Microsoft going to do something called Elevate America — an educational program so people can learn to boot Windows. Steve Jobs may not be at the Apple board meeting. Fired workers are taking confidential data. OMG. Comcast brings out Comcast on Demand. Ballmer’s Big Bet. Ubuntu goes for the cloud. IBM doing a data center in ham country. 10 Tbits/sq inch coming. CeBit will have the 10-inch Netbooks.
Click to listen: [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/12115/episodes/144675/tech5-144675-02-23-2009.mp3]
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Citibank Scammed
If you thought things were bad for Citibank you haven’t heard the icing on the cake. According to a story in the New York Times, Citibank fell for a version of the famed “Nigerian scam” when a swindler tried to get money from an account held by the National Bank of Ethiopia at the bank. Citi apparently approved $27 million worth of transfers that ended up being fraudulent. How confident can we be in the ability of a bank to get back on it’s feet after receiving federal aid when it falls for a scam like this?
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