Live in or near St Louis, MO? Join me on Sept 14th - http://ping.fm/g306M … [Read more...]
August 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
August 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I've had an astronomically busy couple weeks. Now, to tackle the email tidal wave awaiting me. :^P … [Read more...]
To My Beloved on Our Second Anniversary
August 23, 2010 by 1 Comment
This lovely poem reminded me of "covenant marriage" and the lifelong commitment of I and Love and You.Epithalamiumby Thomas LynchThat man who was married in the same black suithe was laid out in, years later, and buried,his widow's tears—they might all make sense to you,now that the two of you are to be married.You've seen old photos of the two of themtaken seven decades back or more.They showed up smiling and said, of coursewe will, for better or worse, and thenthey raised their glasses, cut the cake and kissedand tossed the bride's bouquet and garter outand thanked their parents and … [Read more...]
DBTA: Long-Term Changes Resulting from Policy-Based Management
August 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that my company’s IT department was bracing for a major new line of work. Back in the mid 1990s, we were going full steam into client-server technology. At the same time, we were significantly expanding our workforce. The IT department that had spent years as an old-style mainframe shop, was suddenly inundated with requests for new workstations, network user IDs, new network domains, permission requests, and requests for application access privileges. Our lone mainframe permissions person quickly felt overwhelmed and a little baffled by all of these … [Read more...]
August 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Adobe Air is almost able to challenge Apple iTunes for "most-hated-too-frequent updating" software … [Read more...]
DBTA: The New Master’s Certification from Microsoft
August 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
In July, Microsoft announced its new advanced training and certification program known as the Master’s Certification. (Read more about it at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/default.mspx). I’m really excited about this new certification because it fully lives up to the standard of “the appropriate certification for the appropriate audience.” For one thing, if you’ve ever gone to a martial arts school, you may find many talented martial artists and even several black belts there, but you’ll rarely find more than one “master.” Expect this new SQL Server certification to be equally … [Read more...]
August 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Answered 300 emails last night. 141 new ones came in this morning. :^( … [Read more...]
