Career Change

As we close out 2008 and look ahead to 2009 my thoughts are slowly turning around what my life would have been like had I followed my dream back while I was a freshman in college. Back then my roommate suggested that we drop out of school, take steroids, work out for eight hours a day, … Read more

Uptime? You betcha.

Just thought I would share some info from Operations Manager that shows the amount of uptime on our servers here since 1/1/2008. Why? Well, since I am the official DBA of Uptime, a distinction that many have questioned, it felt right to provide some numbers. I am sure many others will be able to provide … Read more

Trying to Put Ten Pounds of…

If you had ten gallons of water and a five gallon bucket, would you try to pour all ten gallons into that five gallon bucket? No? Why not? Probably because you can clearly see that the volume mismatch will cause a problem of sorts. Unless, of course, you really just want five gallons and you … Read more

Web Persona and Your Career

In the past few months I have seen a handful of blog entries centered around what I call your ‘Web Persona’. The other day I read a blog post from Brad McGehee that listed some helpful tips, not all of which I could agree with. Later on I saw this reaction from Jason Massie and I knew I was … Read more