Comments on the Bamboo Touch

I bought a Bamboo Touch over the holiday break, it’s a multi-touch pad with stylus. Easy install, basically plug in to USB and go. Multi touch was similar to what you would do on an iPhone, lots of options to customize. The stylus was interesting, did pretty well even with my pretty horrible hand writing, […]

PASS Summit Survey – Check Your Email

Not sure if it went to the entire PASS mailing list or just those that have attended a Summit, but you should have received today an email with the subject “Location of PASS Summit: Your Feedback Needed By January 19” that has a link to a survey about your preferences for the location of the […]

Installing WordPress

Last week I posted about Picking a Blog Platform on some of the process that lead to me moving to WordPress. This time I thought I’d share some notes on the install and customization process so far. This is on a Windows 2003 server running IIS 6. I’m assuming here that if you decide to […]

PASS Update #22 (Speaker Bureau – Call for Comments)

One of my big projects this year is to build a speaker bureau, so in this post I’m going to write about some of the ideas I’m hoping to include – and then get some input from you! The Goal: Build a centralized list of speakers that can used by Chapter leaders, community event leaders, and […]

SQLSaturday #38 Announced for Jacksonville, FL

Brian Knight and the JSSUG team will be doing their third SQLSaturday this year on May 8, 2010, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. All the details at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/38/eventhome.aspx.

oPASS & Livemeeting

One of our goals for oPASS in 2010 is to host 12 meetings instead of our usual 6. That doubles the pressure to find speakers of course, so we’re going to try to use Livemeeting to compensate and see what happens. We would still prefer to have all our speakers in person, but at least […]

Book Review: The Billion Dollar Game

The Billion Dollar Game: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day In American Sport – Super Bowl Sunday Another from the new book shelf at the library, The Billion Dollar Game by Allen St. John ($11 at Amazon) covers some of the history and then the prep work for the Super Bowl. I’m not a […]

Speaking at SQLSaturday #32 in Tampa on January 23, 1010

I’ll be heading to Tampa the afternoon of the 22nd for the speaker party, and then presenting Social and Not So Social Networking for the DBA at SQLSaturday #32 on the 23rd. Tampa is a great city to visit, the event is over in the Ybor City area. Looking for food recommendations? Try the Green […]

Picking a Blog Platform

For the past couple years I’ve been using Community Server for blogging, only because that’s the platform that’s been part of SQLServerCentral.com. It works, but it’s not fancy. The only other platform I’ve used is Blogger. It’s functional, easy to set up, let’s you use your own domain name, and of course the price is […]

PASS Summit – Where to Hold it in 2011

Bill Graziano posted some thoughts about the merits of East Coast vs West Coast placement of the Summit. He did a fair job on the main points and I encourage you to read it and post your thoughts. Now for my own! One thing Bill omits is that for many of us, we combine the […]