I love history, always have. I don’t recall when my love for history started (yes, that does seem strange) but it has been with me for years. In college I took a course on Urban Design and I suddenly found myself with a deeper appreciation of history than I had before. I mean, it was [...]

Well, OK, sometimes it is. But not always.
Twice in my life I have had the distinction of having Kevin Kline (blog | @kekline) tell me that I am not loved by enough people. The first was in 2007 in Denver, and Kevin delivered the news to me with a mouth full of chicken wings (true story). [...]

That’s essentially what I consider Itzik Ben-Gan to be, his appearance and accent could be right out of a James Bond movie, or perhaps Phineas and Ferb. Itzik really needs a nickname, too, we should figure something out. I have never had the chance to meet him formally, but when I do I need to [...]

When I attended my first PASS Summit I had been given the title of DBA in my company for about a year. My company was doing some growing of sorts and we had offices in three main locations, and each location had a DBA. But we weren’t really a team yet, and for the most [...]

Every year I would go to the PASS Summit and hear something during one of the keynotes: the number count of people attending a Summit for the very first time. And every year that number would be roughly the same in terms of an overall percentage (or so it seemed). And yet, after attending the [...]