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Gary Hoke

Test-drive Microsoft Project 2007 now with a free 7-day Online Tour

The Online Tour allows you to immediately experience the benefits of Microsoft's EPM solution for your organization. Following scripted scenarios, you experience the benefits of Project Server 2007 and Portfolio Server 2006 by using them. Follow a project from proposal, to staffing, to progress and time reporting -- all in the web client! Learn how to prioritize your portfolio of projects to optimally align with your key business drivers.

You can even go off-road without a script to experiment more fully with the features that most interest you. You also have the ability to reset your EPM databases, so that you can experiment with scenarios or functions multiple times..

http://www.epmconnect.com/PB_Registration.asp?PartnerID=1318&LDT=Tour&RecordID=2387

Enjoy!

Gary Hoke

As if your PC did crash enough on it's own, Microsoft is offering a "Blue Screen of Death" screensaver.



http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/BlueScreen.mspx

(Put it on you coworkers PC to mess with them a little bit. It's not quite as good as the Commodore 64 screensaver, but it will do.)

Enjoy!

Gary

Just heard about this new restaurant concept called uWink.

It involves allowing customers to play table based video games while dining.

http://www.uwink.com/home.htm

Gary Hoke

Good Evening. I stumbled onto an interesting website that allows you to calculate your disease risk based on health related factors that you provide. Try it out at...

http://www.yourdiseaserisk.com

Happy Election Day everybody! I hope that everyone had a chance to get out and vote.

I've taken a few certification tests on Brainbench in the past year and noticed that they have updated their list of free tests. Here is the link:

http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/common/testcenter/freetests.xml

Some of you may be interested in the ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, .NET or Project Management tests. You can't beat the price. FREE!!!

Gary Hoke
http://brainbench.garyhoke.com

I happened upon a cool product that some of you may be interested in buying for your kids for Christmas. It's called the Hasbro Zoombox. It's a portable DVD projector-CD player combo for around $300. It appears to have RCA jacks that allow it to be attached to most video capable devices that support RCA (ie. cable boxes, DVD players, Playstation, Xbox, etc.) It will project up to a 60" image.

http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=ps_results&product_id=16983

Gary Hoke

Hey everyone! The CubeShield press release went out an hour ago. Here it is...

CubeShield Awarded U.S. Patent for Product that Reduces Workplace Vision Problems

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CubeShield, Inc. today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company's cofounders, Paul Rony and Gary Hoke, U.S. Patent 7,117,802 titled "Cubicle Shield".

"Obtaining the patent is critical to our business strategy. It allows us the opportunity to license our invention to manufacturers and distributors who already have established sales and marketing channels nationwide," said Gary Hoke.

The patent covers the CubeShield product, which blocks out excessive overhead lighting while providing added personalization and privacy to office cubicles. The product improves employee comfort and satisfaction while preventing potential vision problems.

According to the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOHS), almost 80% of employees who use computers for more than two hours a day suffer from symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS). “Most people don’t realize that CVS is the most common repetitive stress injury in the workplace, and CubeShield can help alleviate its’ symptoms,” said Paul Rony. By relieving these symptoms, CubeShield can improve employee performance and productivity.

The company began selling the CubeShield product in early 2004 and has experienced a steady growth in sales to consumers and facilities managers throughout the United States. By August 2006, the company had already matched its 2005 revenues from sales of the CubeShield product. The company expects sales growth to accelerate as the market gains awareness of the product and the benefits that it provides.

About CubeShield

CubeShield, Inc. was established in June 2002 to develop and market a unique product that allows employees to enhance their cubicle environments. While the CubeShield product was invented to block excessive overhead light, it can also provide personalization and privacy to an office cubicle. To learn more about CubeShield please visit the company website at www.cubeshield.com.


Here are some additional links to the press release:

• http://triangle.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=96701&type_news=latest
• http://carolinanewswire.com/news/News.cgi?database=1news%2edb&command=viewone&id=1043&op=t
• http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061101/20061101005127.html?.v=1
• http://www.pr.com/press-release/21520
• http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061101005127&newsLang=en

Work in an office cubicle? Need your cubicle pimped or maybe some feng shui?

If so, you should checkout "The Cubicle Collection" at Amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R27SJQ4I02BNEY/ref=cm_lm_srch_fvlm_col_1/102-1091932-6377712

There is something for everyone here. Surf on...

Gary Hoke

Nice deal! SimpleTech 1GB Bonzai Xpress USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $5.95 after rebate. You need to use Google checkout to get the additional $10 off.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202849432&adid=17662

Just ordered mine. ?8-)

Gary Hoke

Good afternoon! I found a good article that provides some tips on ASP.NET web configuration with the .Net 2.0 Framework.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/11/InsideMSCOM/default.aspx

Some valuable tips to say the least.

Gary Hoke

Hey everyone! If you haven't checked out CubeFabulous yet I would suggest you do. I need your votes on my page at the link below. Thanks in advance!

http://www.cubefabulous.com//casting_couch_details.php?couch_id=349

Gary Hoke

Man... The last two days have flown by. I'm almost done reading my PMP study guide. Just a few more chapters. If any of you are interested in learning more about the local PMI chapter feel free to visit the link below.

http://www.ncpmi.org

Gary Hoke

TechJournal's Biannual Deck Party is this Thursday. See you there.

http://techjournalsouth.com/deckparty/

Gary Hoke

I'm not sure if many of you will be interested, but I found a good Sarbanes-Oxley training presentation online. It's high level and takes about 15-20 minutes to complete. It does go through each of the sections including 404 which is applicable to IT.

Sarbanes-Oxley for Executive Management present by The Edcomm Group
http://bankersacademy.com/sox/movie.html

Gary Hoke

Someone gotta case of the Mundays? Not here.

I thought everyone might be interested in my favorite deal sites. I've included the links below.

http://www.dealcatcher.com/
http://www.edealsinfo.com/
http://www.gotapex.com/deals.php
http://www.techbargains.com/

Now get back to work!

Gary Hoke

Good evening! I stumbled upon a list of the World's 500 Largest Software and Services Companies in Digital Software Magazine. Interesting stuff ... enjoy.

http://online.qmags.com/swm0906/

Gary Hoke

Good Sunday afternoon everyone. If you interested in an alternative way to invest or lend money I suggest you checkout Prosper.com. It's the largest peer-to-peer lending website in the nation. You can get additional benefits as a borrower or lender by joining the local Research Triangle Prosper (www.RTProsper.com) group by clicking on the button below.

If you have any questions about joining Prosper just let me know.

Gary Hoke

Hey! I hope everyone had a great Saturday. I've been busy working on a press release for CubeShield today, so watch the news for more information sometime next week. PR is expense, but is a necessary investment.

I would like to share a few links to "super search" sites which I commonly use.

www.sidestep.com - SideStep is the search engine for travel search engines. It searches a bunch of travel sites including Travelocity, Orbitz, etc. for the best deals and consolidates them into one list which is easy to filter by various criteria.

www.simplyhired.com - SimplyHired is the search engine for employment search engines. It searches a bunch of job sites like Monster, HotJobs.com, etc. for employment opportunities based on the criteria that you specify.

If you haven't checked out either of these site I highly recommend that you do.

Gary Hoke

Hi Everyone! Gary Hoke here. This is my initial post to my blog. I'll be capturing daily thoughts, links to stuff of interest and posting photos. If you would like to learn more about me you can checkout the following links:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyhoke
http://resume.garyhoke.com
http://www.cubeshield.com/aboutus/management.aspx