Macbook in the driver's seat, originally uploaded by BrentOzar.
My coworkers were a little surprised yesterday when I alreay had my Macbook Pro as my primary machine, and my Dell had already been relegated to riding shotgun. The only reason I even still have it on my desk is because I have to get our UniCenter guys to install the UniCenter management tools in my Mac's virtual Windows XP machine.
YES! YES! YES!
Or as they say in the World Cup, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
End ofa long, hard day, originally uploaded by BrentOzar.
I spent the second half of the day building and installing a couple of pizza boxes from IBM. We're cleaning up our network test lab, mounting flat panels on the walls for easier builds, and just generally making it a nicer place to spend time.
I had to do some developer training last week and I wrote up a paper on the basics of primary keys and indexes. Sure, there's tons of similar stuff around the net, but this is MINE, baby.
Our Table: Phone Numbers
For our evil training purposes, let's say we work for the phone company, and we need a database table with phone numbers. We need to track:
Well, whaddya know. The coffee shop interview I did with the TV reporter ended up making it to the local news that night. I got a laugh out of the subtitle they showed during the interview.
I've got an agent, and I'm planning a new TV show called "The Sleepy Houstonian." I figure it'll be like Insomniac, only the reverse: rather than Dave Attell prowling clubs, it'll be me alternating between naps and looking for Red Bull.
I had a really crummy day yesterday. Things just weren't going my way, and I had all kinds of stupid small programming problems at work. Just one unrelated thing after another. Sometime in the afternoon, I stumbled downstairs for yet another pot of coffee and some ibuprofen, but I wasn't really paying attention. I was…
Woohoo! I got new shoes. Repeated watchings of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy convinced me that I needed to start putting some class into my wardrobe. First on the agenda: a couple pairs of new shoes. Yesterday, Erika and I went down to DSW, a big shoe store on Westheimer, and examined their mens' department. Out of it all, I only found a couple pairs that were decent, and they didn't have any left in my size.
Two is better than one, especially when it comes to CPU's. I'm now running a dual-P3 1ghz machine for my main desktop. I got frustrated with my slow frame rates on Grand Theft Auto III, so I went out to Directron and picked up a Gigabyte GA-6VTXD motherboard and two processors. Originally I got 1.2ghz…
