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#sqlsat35 looking ahead to the weekend

This weekend I’ll be traveling to the DFW metropolitan area to attend SQLSaturday #35; I’m very excited about it.Ā  I didn’t know if I’d be able to attend this weekend (had to trade kid time with the ex-wife), so I missed the call for speakers.Ā  I am looking forward to actually attending sessions and bumping [...]

May 21, 2010 Ā· stuart Ā· No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Conferences, PASS, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming…

OK, so I havenā€™t exactly lived up to my promise to keep blogging on a regular basis despite my personal issues.  Sorry.  Iā€™ve been wasting a lot of time lately, just moping around the house.  Itā€™s funny, when youā€™re depressed, you have all this time on your hands, all this nervous energy, and yet, you [...]

January 26, 2010 Ā· stuart Ā· 6 Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, The Social Web

OT: Endings and new beginnings

This is a personal post; I need to write it to explain my absence from blogging, and hopefully announce my return with new vigor. My wife and I have decided to separate after 14 years of marriage; although itā€™s a painful process, Iā€™m hoping that weā€™ll both survive this, and come out of it as [...]

November 30, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· One Comment
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, The Social Web

Becoming a better me…

This will be a short post, mainly because Iā€™m in the home stretch for SQLSaturday #25; lots of little stuff to get done between now and Saturday.  However, a few interesting things have been happening lately, and I thought Iā€™d share some of them. First, Microsoft announced its latest round of MVPā€™s.  No, I didnā€™t [...]

October 6, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· 3 Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

Leave-A-Comment Day!

  I recently watched the movie Julie and Julia with my wife; even though I was the only male in the audience (seriously), I really enjoyed the film.  It was pretty funny, particularly if you remember who Julia Child was.  Back when I was a kid (before cable TV), we only had 4 channels, and [...]

September 17, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· 6 Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

Posting to post (part 2)

Another one of my infamous postings to post; not much to write about, really.  Iā€™ve been extremely busy at work, and thereā€™s lots of stuff going on in my personal ā€œmeatspaceā€.  When I get done for the day, I really donā€™t want to write or think anything.  I just want to sit in a chair [...]

August 17, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!

Announcing AtlantaMDF Reviews

Just a quick post to tout a recent sister site that Iā€™ve started (with the help of several other AtlantaMDF members): AtlantaMDF Reviews.  Our goal is to provide a forum of book and tool reviews that would be of interest to our local PASS user group. The site has just started, with only 2 brief [...]

May 26, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Book Reviews, Education, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

Gonna be some changes around here….

If you’ve been here recently, you may have noticed a new theme; I’m trying to clean up the look around here a bit. I’ve decided I want to be a little more proactive about my blogging, and decided that I wanted a new look to go with it. Why the sudden interest in blogging? First, [...]

May 4, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!

Reflections on my comfort zone

Spoke to a good friend today; a guy I havenā€™t seen in several years, but we exchange emails pretty regularly.  Heā€™s been having a rough time this year: he lost his job earlier this year, and has been trying to find work to keep him afloat while he revamps his career.  He mentioned to me [...]

April 29, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· 2 Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Education

Testing Windows Live Writer

So WindowsUpdate prompted me that there was a few new updates available for my PC, including a selection of stuff for Windows Live.  I like this tool, but Iā€™m going to have to put it through itā€™s paces to really get a feel for how well itā€™s gonna work.  This is just a quick post [...]

April 22, 2009 Ā· stuart Ā· 2 Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!