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Category Archives: Misc
Who Moved my Cheese? Lifestyle Book or Horror Story?
I’ve always wondered. Is Who Moved My Cheese a motivational book or a horror story? Continue reading
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Tagged horror, who moved my cheese
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First You Get Good, Then You Get Fast: Thoughts to Live By for Blog Production
Three contradictory ideas that can help the average blogger in putting out a quality blog or publication. Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Publishing, books, Misc
Tagged cerebus the aardvark, dave sim, quality in blogging
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Falling Back to a Previous Version with WordPress Revisions
When using WordPress to create new posts, take comfort that you can restore previous blog post versions with the WordPress revisions feature. Continue reading
Don’t Put Your Address on Your Resume–Here’s Why (@avidcareerist)
Here’s an interesting article from Donna Svei (@avidcareerist) about why you shouldn’t put your home address on your resume. It’s something I would never have thought of. Continue reading
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Tagged Resume address
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A Day in the Life: Joe’s Current Project List for Various Customers
2014 is shaping up as a busy year for us here at Hertvik Business Services. Here are some of the recent and upcoming projects from my current project list that we’re working on for various clients.
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Three Quotes that Could Have Come From IT Professionals…But Didn’t
Things that famous people might say if they were IT. Continue reading
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Tagged famous people talk about it, IT quotes
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IT Management and the Hertvik Paradox: Invisibility is Your Friend
Here’s the formula for success in IT infrastructure:
Success=Invisibility
The more people actually see you doing your job, the less successful you are.
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Posted in IT Management, Misc, opinion
Tagged data center, it infrastructure, it management
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Having Problems Accessing the WideOpenWest Email Portal?
Contacted WideOpenWest (WOW) technical support today when I could no longer reach my email over the Internet through the portal.wideopenwest.com URL. It turns out that WOW’s portal.wideopenwest.com URL no longer works for accessing email over the Web. If you’ve been using … Continue reading
Subscribe to joehertvik.com–Get New Posts by Email
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Is It Me or is IE 9 Just Not Doing the Job Anymore?
In the last few weeks, I’ve noticed Internet Explorer starting to choke on Web sites that it used to handle with ease. Here’s some examples I’ve recently run into where IE isn’t quite up to snuff. I use IE 9 at … Continue reading
Running an IBM i HA Switch Exercise This Weekend
This weekend, my shop is running an IBM I high availability switchover exercise. We’re switching processing to go live on our backup box for four hours on Sunday morning, and bringing in 25 users to certify that the Capacity BackUp … Continue reading
Posted in IT Management, Misc
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Easy and Hard Ways to Run
Ran a mile today without a dog and a half-mile with a dog. Running without a dog is easier.
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This Month at Hertvik Business Services
Hertvik Business Services produces articles, tips, white papers, case studies, and all kinds of marketing material for the computer industry. We also offer personal services such as seminars, podcasts, and Webinars from founder and owner Joe Hertvik and other IT … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing materials, Misc
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SecureMyi Tribute to John Earl, IBM i Legend
Dan Riehl and the SecureMyi newsletter have published a memorial tribute to John Earl, IBM i legend, in the latest issue of the SecureMyi newsletter. John died on January 3, 2013. The entire newsletter is devoted to John with remembrances … Continue reading
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IT Jungle: Big Blue Provides a Solid Base Install # for IBM i machines
Alex Woodie of IT Jungle just put out a great post citing an IBM published number of organizations using the IBM i platform. And that number is over 150,000. Per Alex, this was published by Collin Parris, Power Systems General … Continue reading
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