Archive for the ‘Contests’ Category

The past month has been one of the most fun and challenging things since I started blogging.  I have been participating with Thomas Jones’ Bloggers Reality Contest.  We posted our third and final posts of the contest last week and each of us has been patiently waiting for the final results this week at VMworld. [...]

This week, we shine the spotlight on network convergence and management in the FlexNetwork portfolio, specifically the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules and the Intelligent Management Control (IMC) software.  Networking is generally not my forte, so some of this is a stretch for me, but I use and understand Virtual Connect. FlexFabric is an implementation [...]

1:30pm – Updated with revised judging panel. When I think of a reality show, I think of people competing for prizes, being judged and getting voted out of the house, off the stage or off of the island.   Take that concept and apply it directly to tech bloggers and what would it be?  It would [...]

I wanted to formally extend my congratulations to Blake Loring, the winner of the Tech Talk Giveway – a HP Proliant Microserver.  Blake was selected from 33 entries submitted on my blog.  The selection process was completely random.  I wrote a MySQL view with a seeded rand() statement to select the winner a week before [...]

From my week at HP Discover, HP and Ivy Worldwide have awarded me one HP Proliant MicroServer to give away to ONE lucky reader.  So, I want to award the MicroServer to someone who can come up with an  innovative way to use the server in their home or office.  There are just two steps [...]


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