Last weekend while walking around Manhattan I passed by a bank. I noticed that all of the desks had monitors that were visible to the street. Since it was at night, and no one was working, all of the screens were black. All but one. And that’s the one that caught my eye. Can you … Read more
I need to deep fry a turbaconducken. This isn’t a want, no. This is a primal need of mine. I feel so strongly about this that it’s on my bucket list. It is positioned right below hiring two private investigators to follow each other, and right above building an igloo with the Inuit. Deep frying a … Read more
Every now and then I have an idea. Yes, it’s true. Stop laughing. No, I didn’t say they were good ideas. Sometimes I remember to write these ideas down, usually in Evernote in a notebook titled ‘General Core Dump’. Periodically I look at them and they become something more, perhaps a blog post of their … Read more
Last week Microsoft killed their Certified Masters program, essentially making my glass trophy as worthless as…well…a trophy in a bookcase. Today there was a phone call with Microsoft Learning and 250 lucky MCM participants. The result of the phone call? Just more frustration for everyone. What I was hoping for was to hear details about … Read more
Multi-tasking. That’s the biggest mistake people make each and every day. Wait, you think you are good at multi-tasking? If you are, then I’ll wager that the quality of your work isn’t as good as it could be. If you aren’t good at multi-tasking, I’ll wager that you have someone in your life wondering why you aren’t … Read more
Backup or dump, which do you prefer to take? I have often referred to a database backup as a database dump. The reason for this goes back to an event that happened many years ago where the database backup files filled up a disk drive. As a result we were not able to recover data … Read more
