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That is beautiful! Love the art design.

I've found that the primary value for me in NoSQL implementations is in allowing for customization at the data level for the end users without having to explicitly build structures for it. So if User A wants to add a tracking field to all her data, she can do so without my having to build an extensible data structure on the back end; it's already there, and it doesn't affect any other user records.

+1 to your +1. Strengths Finder was eye-opening for me. It clearly identified some areas to explore that well suit my intellectual curiosity, in a way I haven't thought of before. Mind you, I haven't done anything with this knowledge, but at least I know what I'm not doing now!

Thanks, yummyfajitas - exactly what I would have said. If you can't do a pushup, then can you do a pushup against a wall? When you can do that with good form, then you lower the angle so you're pushing more of your bodyweight.

The logic works the other way, too, for increasing difficulty. Can you do 3 sets of a hundred one-armed pushups? Well, start climbing your feet up the wall!

If you can do free-standing one-hand vertical pushups without strain, I've got nothing for ya. Go ahead and start vert pressing 600 pounds. Also, try out for the Olympic weightlifting team--the gold medal should be easy!

...including this. Start with body weight training. Convict Conditioning is a great no-BS book & program, for instance.

It's interesting to consider the change to insourcing manufacturing in light of the more recent trend of outsourcing (or, probably more accurately, globalizing) white-collar jobs. Although you wouldn't get the same benefits in terms of saving shipping costs, the other benefits of the article seem like they still would apply.

At a large corporation I worked at a few years ago, there was an ongoing push to offshore jobs to an internal group in the same company. We were encouraged to use this group by our chain of command despite the fact that previous efforts at outsourcing in our own group had failed disastrously. So it would be good to see the public discourse swing back toward the benefits of insourcing so that managers have more ammunition to fight for what works.