anacronyms

I’m away every second weekend. That has been a fact of our life together since the beginning. Though we tire of it, and find it inconvenient in some ways, one of our fundamental principles is that the children come first, and if there is a choice between us and the children, the children win.
This has [...]

NSFW.
This one is amazingly textural.

Bellevue is about 120 miles south of home. Last night, missing my family, I left after class and was home shortly before 7:00, where I kissed and cuddled and perhaps got lucky and slept in my own bed beside the woman who I adore, and then I got up and left at 5:15 and was [...]

NSFW. Nipples and bare bum.

The course I am taking is called SQL Server 2008 Architecture, Internals, and Tuning. The instructor is Kalen Delaney, primary author of one of the most informative and useful series of books available for SQL Server, the Inside SQL Server series.
There is too much material for it to be covered in exhaustive depth, but it [...]

Yesterday was the first day of class. I’m taking a week long course here in beautiful Bellevue, Washington, on SQL Server Internals. Yesterday we spent 8 hours on data storage, which I just know all you find fascinating. I learned a lot of useful things, and I’m looking forward to learning more today.
Yesterday was the [...]

I don’t know the last time I had a dry spell as dusty as this one.
I’m not sure what is going on here. I haven’t been writing much – I haven’t had the mental energy for it.  I’ve had some good ideas, but haven’t been able to turn them into anything.
It’s the same at work. [...]

I don’t know where the time went.
I was wandering the halls of a local high school, in which HouseApe 2.0 was rehearsing her dance recital. On the wall I found a 4′ x 6′ framed set of pictures of the senior class of 2009. I followed the trail down the hall…2008…2007…2000…1990…1980… and then stopped. The [...]

Most companies complain about lack of communication. Even if there are memos flying around all the time, people still complain that nobody tells them anything.
But that is a two way street, or a two-edged sword. There are two parts to communication, the message projected,  and that received. The best writer and communicator in the world [...]

Wow, no post since June 5.
I am upgrading to WordPress 2.8 – no major improvements, although they claim it is faster.  I like the admin interface changes that came with 2.5 (wasn’t it?) and this looks to be about the same, but the admin panel has definitely been slow. 2.8 claims to fix that.
I’ve just [...]