Officially disguised as a Canadian
Author: Randolph30 seconds of pain. Mortifying. Two ways to describe my first television advert on Lloydminster’s local news channel. I did it as a favour for a chartered plane company in town, and when you take into account that I didn’t want to do any lines on camera, the end result wasn’t too bad. To saveContinue reading Canadian television debut
Speaking of tribute pages, here’s one to the immortal Tom Selleck, sent to me by Aidan. (He also sent me to this Dave Coulier shrine.)
Since I’ve moved everything to WordPress, I was able to use a WordPress plugin for my David Hasselhoff Tribute Page, which you can now find here.
Today at the clinic, we did the second of three phases of network reorganisation. In the first phase, which we completed a week ago, our new server was set up with the EMR software, all data was migrated from the old server, and the vendor remoted in to make sure everything was up and running.Continue reading What I did today
Thus far I have made it through 11 of the MCM videos on SQLSkills.com, as well as the associated demos. There is a large amount of information in these videos, and I’ve been learning a lot. The point of this training next year is to fill in the blanks. I consider my T-SQL skills forContinue reading SQL Preparation, Part the Second
As I noted in a previous entry, I’m going to be upgrading my SQL Server knowledge with the best minds in the business, in early 2012. To prepare myself for this training, I’m planning on going through the 40+ hours of videos that are provided for MCM training, as well as two of the requiredContinue reading SQL Preparation, Part the First
John Gruber calls it “Claim Chowder” where someone predicts something in the future that is shown as completely wrong, as the future catches up to those claims. As I’m going through my 900+ blog entries to make sure internal links are working, and having a good chuckle at the expense of myself (after all, what’sContinue reading Hazards of recorded history …
In one month, I’m turning thutty-five. I’m also in the process of migrating over 16 years’ worth of blog and personal website into one WordPress installation. As I go through the content, I’m struck by the number of times I’ve sworn, and in particular the “f-word”. So where it hasn’t added anything to the context,Continue reading Sanitation
I’ve been busy with the local community theatre group here in Lloydminster. We go on stage this weekend for three nights. The first night was completely sold out, so they added another night before the first night, which is almost sold out. The second date, which became the third date, is the matinee, and isContinue reading See How They Run
In February and March 2012 I’m taking a trip to Tampa FL to attend three weeks of in-depth SQL Server training, provided by Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, those legends of the SQL world. I cannot wait.