Archive for the ‘Blogging is FUN!’ Category

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming…

OK, so I haven’t exactly lived up to my promise to keep blogging on a regular basis despite my personal issues.  Sorry.  I’ve been wasting a lot of time lately, just moping around the house.  It’s funny, when you’re depressed, you have all this time on your hands, all this nervous energy, and yet, you [...]

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

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 it’s a painful process, I’m hoping that we’ll both survive this, and come out of it as better [...]

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

Becoming a better me…

This will be a short post, mainly because I’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 I’d share some of them.
First, Microsoft announced its latest round of MVP’s.  No, I didn’t [...]

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

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   Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  6 Comments

Posting to post (part 2)

Another one of my infamous postings to post; not much to write about, really.  I’ve been extremely busy at work, and there’s lots of stuff going on in my personal “meatspace”.  When I get done for the day, I really don’t want to write or think anything.  I just want to sit in a chair [...]

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

Announcing AtlantaMDF Reviews

Just a quick post to tout a recent sister site that I’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 reviews [...]

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

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 [...]

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

Reflections on my comfort zone

Spoke to a good friend today; a guy I haven’t seen in several years, but we exchange emails pretty regularly.  He’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   Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Education  2 Comments

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 I’m going to have to put it through it’s paces to really get a feel for how well it’s gonna work.  This is just a quick post [...]

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

quick post to say “sorry for not posting”

I’ve been incredibly busy the last few weeks, and unfortunately, any attempt at updating this blog had to give. With personal stuff (the Easter cantata at church and spring break for the kids), work stuff (lots of new projects), and SQLSaturday (what was I thinking when I signed up for this?) , I’ve barely [...]

April 15, 2009   Posted in: Blogging is FUN!  No Comments