Author Archives: jonezy

Solution for bookmarking…

By jonezy | Published: May 17, 2009
I can’t remember the last time I used my browsers built in bookmarking functionality (can you?), and for a while I’ve been looking for a better solution for keeping track of sites that I know I”m going to want to come back to. I’ve gone through the following various methods of keeping track of [...]
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Note: Blog upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1

By jonezy | Published: May 12, 2009
All went well!  And so begins another stab at blogging after almost a year off.  I’ve got loads to talk about!
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Weathering the storm

By jonezy | Published: August 11, 2008
One of the common tasks when working in an agile environment is pointing stories, its essential that the team and the product owner get together and decide on how much effort something is going to take. We had a meeting scheduled today at work to do just this, 4 stories that needed pointing so they [...]
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Hundred pushups: Week 3

By jonezy | Published: August 11, 2008
Nothing good to report about week 3 : (  I seriously struggled getting through all the sets each day (I literally couldn’t finish all the sets for any of the days this week.  So it is with great shame that I confess I will be repeating week 3 (in fact I will repeat it until [...]
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Things I learned on twitter

By jonezy | Published: August 3, 2008
Things I learned on twitter is this silly idea I came up with while driving into work one day, the idea is that there is a wealth of maybe not so popular news, personal interactions and other insight into people’s lives that you can only find on twitter.  I decided to start logging some of [...]
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Hundred pushups: Week 2

By jonezy | Published: August 3, 2008
Continuing the trend of keeping myself accountable to sticking with the hundred push up program, I’ve completed week 2!  Nothing terribly exciting to report back, I’m definitely feeling stronger and noticing that I’m not as sore after finishing the sets.  One thing I am looking for is a simple add-on to the current program, something [...]
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Note: Blog upgraded to Wordpress 2.6

By jonezy | Published: July 27, 2008
All went well except for a short internet outage which left my blog in an error’d state for a few minutes.  Just upgrading plugins and testing out the google gears integration stuff.  Let me know if you see anything broken!
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Hundred pushups: The real week 1

By jonezy | Published: July 27, 2008
As promised, I’m posting about my first week of doing the hundred push up training program. As I noted I did score pretty high in the initial test, and I started in the bracket that aligned with my initial score but quickly realized I should drop down to the middle tier and go with [...]
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A Retrospective: Moving

By jonezy | Published: July 23, 2008
On July 4th of this year, my wife, 3 kids and I moved into a new house. It’s not the first house we owned but with a family the size of mine the smaller house we were living in was just not going to scale with us. My son already took over my basement office [...]
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100 Pushups – Week 1

By jonezy | Published: July 21, 2008
This week I’ll be starting the 100 Pushup Training program. The first step in the program is determining what rank I fall in for the program. I did the initial test this morning and was able to eek out 16 pushups, according to the guidelines found on the website, for my age and the number [...]
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