Desktop, Network, and Windows skills in demand?

Posted on March 5th, 2009 webmaster No comments          Print

Desktop support ranked as the most wanted skill sets for 76% of CIOs, with network and Windows administration taking the second and third slots with 65% and 64%, respectively. Database management is considered hot for 55% of respondents, and telecommunications support and wireless network management was selected by 47% and 46% of CIOs polled, respectively. Rounding out those skills seen as in demand are Web development/Web site design (39%), virtualization (35%) and business intelligence (31%).

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The study is based on data gathered from about 300 clients with $200 million or more in revenue, according to Network World.

I’m actually a bit surprised with the findings.  I didn’t expect desktop support to be the most wanted skill, I was expecting virtualization to be at the top because of all the cost/time savings virtualization can provide.

100,000 Miles!

Posted on March 4th, 2009 webmaster No comments          Print

100,000 Miles!

I was driving to work this morning and noticed my car just reached 100,000 miles!  I pulled out my BlackBerry and took a quick picture at the next stop light.  The picture is really blurry though.

Hoping to get another 100,000 miles from this car!

Tweet from your BlackBerry

Posted on March 3rd, 2009 webmaster No comments          Print

Tiny Twitter

If you’re looking for a Twitter application for your BlackBerry, I recommend that you give Tiny Twitter a try.  It has a nice user interface, plenty of options, and supports keyboard shortcuts.

This is the first mobile Twitter application that I’ve tried and I’m not really planning on trying the other ones out there because I’m happy with this one already.  It does pretty much all the Twitter-related functions that I need, but I’m still pretty new to Twitter so I’m not sure if this is good enough for the heavy Twitter users.

Here are some of the options that are available: Update, Tweet, Access Links, Reply, Direct, Retweet, User Timeline, Unfollow, Delete, Inbox, Nearby Twitter Peeps, What’s Hot, Search, Hide Friends.

Happy Tweeting!