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iPhones, Robots, and Cookies

I traded my iPhone for a batch of cookies. That’s right: one white iPhone 3GS was traded for a batch of cookies. This has been a long time coming.
My Growing Disappointment
I’ve had an iPhone since Apple first unleashed them on unsuspecting consumers. I was happy with the first generation iPhone. I was even happier with [...]

Speaking is so done

Honestly, I’m tired of speaking. PowerPoint is overrated. People want more or less bullet points. It’s never enough. More graphs. More pie charts. Less funny images. More dinosaurs. Stop showing pictures of Zeus sexing up a goat. I don’t know what you people want!
Demos – you can shove those, too. People complain when the code [...]

T-SQL Tuesday 4: Io, Io, it’s off to disk we go

Io was a nymph. True story. Apparently, her father was some kind of river god. In modern times that means you’re likely to catch fire. Back in the days when the Greeks were in charge of things being a river god meant that you were somebody (the Greeks thought the earth was a giant brass [...]

How the Hell Did I Get Here?

Paul Randal started this chain post. He tagged Steve Jones who, in turn, tagged Jack Corbett who finally tagged me. I’m pretty sure everyone who nominally makes sense has already been tagged at this point thus leaving Jack to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Like Jack, I think I could approach this in a number [...]

Knowing and not Knowing

In the IT field, people have the expectation that we’ll always have an answer or a solution. The problem is that we usually don’t have the answer. A lot of the time, we don’t even have the beginnings of a clue. Your reaction when you don’t have an answer speaks volumes. I’m going to use [...]