Archive for the ‘The Social Web’ 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

PASS Summit Day 1.5

So this is the first official day of Summit, but since I got here in the middle of the day yesterday, I’m cramming a brief post in combining yesterday and today.  I could sum up the experience in one word:
Awesome.
I have met SO many people face to face that I normally follow on twitter and [...]

November 4, 2009   Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  One Comment

SQLBingo: a few more things to consider…

SQLBingo is still on at Pass Summit 2009; we’re less than a week away, and this should be a lot of fun.  To sum up, a bunch of us SQL Tweeters are going to be wandering around Summit; if you want to play Bingo, you have to match the real person with their avatar [...]

October 27, 2009   Posted in: PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  No Comments

SQL PASS Twitter Bingo: The rules so far…

Sorry for the late posting on this, but it’s been a heckuva day   Anyway, we (Brent Ozar, Blythe Morrow, several others and I) have had several logistical discussion about how Twitter Bingo will be played at PASS Summit 2009, and I thought I would post what we’ve discussed so far.
The goals!
The goal of [...]

October 21, 2009   Posted in: PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  11 Comments

All aTwitter about PASS Nominations

Lots of interesting conversations about the PASS nominations happening on Twitter today; if you are not up to speed, you’ve got a lot of reading to do.  I’ll try to sum up as best I can:

Some people applied to be nominated for board positions; a nominating committed approved 4 applications for 3 open positions.
3 of [...]

October 16, 2009   Posted in: PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  13 Comments

PASS Summit 2009 – Twitter Bingo Players

Last call!  If you’re planning on being at PASS Summit 2009, and you have an active Twitter account, and you’d like to be sought after by millions of screaming fans (OK, that last part’s an exaggeration, but there will be people looking for you), please let me know by Friday, 10/16/2009.  So far, the following [...]

October 14, 2009   Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  12 Comments

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

Coming to PASS Summit 2009: Twitter BINGO!

So, last year at PASS Summit, I had my first real experience with a heavily-twittered event.  What was interesting was that I met a lot of people in real-life that I had just recently begun following on Twitter; I had made the comment (in passing) to someone that we should have had BINGO cards [...]

September 25, 2009   Posted in: Conferences, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web  23 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