Saw this article about more elbow room, the premise being that is it is often cheaper to buy a second seat than it is to move to business or first class. Strangely, some airlines don’t let you do this, and almost all of them don’t make it obvious that you can do it. Which, being […]
Read more "Buying a Second Seat on the Plane"I did the relatively quick flight to Charlotte on Friday afternoon, arriving just before 2 pm, grabbed lunch to go from a bbq place in the food court and waited for the hotel shuttle. About a 20 minute wait, not much more than the time it would have taken to go through the rental car […]
Read more "Notes from SQLSaturday #33"I’m flying up Friday afternoon for SQLSaturday #33. Looking forward to the trip, Charlotte is a great area and I know a lot of the speakers presenting this time, so the Friday night get together should be a lot of fun. This will be more of a working trip than usual, Blythe Morrow from PASS […]
Read more "Going to Charlotte for SQLSaturday #33"Time to update you again on all things PASS. First, I haven’t made a lot of progress on the speaker bureau. Rushabh supports the plan to build what we need and I’ve sent an outline to the Board for comment (one received so far), and I’m waiting on results of the survey that went out […]
Read more "PASS Update #24"Final schedule for the Charlotte event and it is impressive – 9 tracks, 54 sessions!
Read more "Schedule for SQLSaturday #33"The title of this post illustrates my own ambiguity on the topic. It’s fair and necessary to let others know about your accomplishments (marketing), but it’s easy to descend into ‘hey look at me’ (promotion). Not sure how well I can show the distinction. Self marketing is an essential skill though, and it is worth […]
Read more "Self Promotion & Self Marketing"Andrew Karcher and Marlon Ribunal are heading up SQLSaturday #44 scheduled for April 24, 2010 at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, CA. It’s definitely an aggressive schedule, but they have the date locked in and a good plan. This is our first SQLSaturday in California and the first one set up since the transfer […]
Read more "SQLSaturday #44!"Drove down with the family Friday afternoon, not much traffic and a smooth trip. Checked into the Residence Inn just down the street from the event, caught up on some email, and then walked across 2 blocks of not yet build hotel space to La Carreta, a local Cuban restaurant and the site of the […]
Read more "Notes from the 2010 South Florida Code Camp"Saw the announcement by accident while doing some browsing on Amazon. Thought I’d try it out just to see. Download and install easy enough, connected to Amazon via the app and downloaded a free book – Sherlock Holmes. Paging works by hitting the space bar or moving the track bar, and the text is very […]
Read more "Kindle for the Blackberry"I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or just annoy me), but for the most part they aren’t things that really cause me a lot of pain. So, thinking ahead to April 1st, it has me wondering – how would you really drive […]
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