Archives for April 2012

Katie’s Premature Aging Problem

She looks like an old Scottish man! … [Read more...]

ITPro, Re-architect Your Life

Have you ever found yourself wanting to make a major shift - in skills, in roles, in relationships? One of my good friends, Jimmy May (Blog | Twitter), accomplished a set of major career and lifestyle revisions including relocating to Redmond, taking on a huge new level of job responsibility as part of the Microsoft SQL Customer Advisory Team, and achieving the noted accreditation of Microsoft Certified Master. Jimmy and I were chatting about undertaking major life changes like these and, as is often the case, his thoughts were too good not to share. Be sure to explore these excellent … [Read more...]

Spring SQL Cruise

I was especially blessed to be chosen as a speaker and instructor for SQLCruise.com.The SQLCruise concept is simple - let's hold classes for IT professionals on a cruise ship.  We conduct our classes while at sea and, when in port, we conduct some outings and generally have fun.This trip we went to the Bahamas, the Netherland Antilles, and the US Virgin Islands.  Here's one of the vistas on St Maartins.  Fun snorkeling between the beach on those two islands too!One of the attendees knew me and even had one of my embarrassing rockstar shirts that Quest made up a year or two … [Read more...]