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The Definition of Adulthood

Knowing there’s a brand new Tivo HD in your car trunk, but driving to go get a haircut rather than racing home to set it up.  (Just upgraded my Tivo to match my new HDTV.)

Behind the times or ahead of the curve?

I have this strange personality quirk - I can’t decide whether I’m behind the times or ahead of the curve.  I found out about Dinner With The Band, an HDTV podcast where a music-savvy chef (Sam Mason) cooks for a band, and then they play a couple songs in his NYC apartment.  It’s a slick [...]

Welcome my WHAT?

I’m looking at apartment ads in Houston and I ran across an odd line: “We are a pet friendly community and we would love to welcome your furry member.“  Uh….right.

Updated my SQL Server Perfmon article

I’ve been meaning to update my article about Performance Tuning SQL Server with Perfmon, and I finally got around to it today.  Still have lots to add, but at least I got the basics in there about setting up the Excel spreadsheet.

Deep Thoughts

Just a quick note to say that I’ve implemented the “Asides” feature of Wordpress to generate little mini-entries here.  They’ll show up differently.