December 2008
70 posts
Arrived in Auckland, decided to spend what’s rest of the night at the airport Centra and drive to Waihi in the morning
Re: The Editor Dillemma →
Ha! Actually I have a sense of deja-vu on this post, did you do a similar one a year or two back?
Have decided to spend new years in New Nealand, Waihi Beach for a couple of days, at airport now.
Re: Top 10 Data Management Issues for 2009 →
Hey good to hear from you. This blog is a lot of thinking out loud and all feedback is welcome. I agree with your nit-pick. Most sites can probably do a reasonable job of capacity planning to ensure…
My Top 10 Data Management Issues for 2009 http://weny.ws/1TM
Re: The Editor Dillemma →
After writing blogs for 8 years and 5 books, and being really terrible at grammar, this is something I have thought about before. I think there are a few different reasons why people get hung up on…
Top 10 Data Management Issues for 2009 →
So it’s that time of year again when everyone puts out their predictions for the year ahead. I think predictions are a bit of a waste of time because to be interesting predictions have to be big,…
Apparently VH1 is the “old persons” music channel but I have it on often in the office when I am working!
A great SMB cloud accounting system currently for UK, AU & NZ http://weny.ws/1TJ
Listening to The Pogues Fairytale of New York
Microsoft Confirms New SQL Server Threat http://weny.ws/1TH
“…Furthermore, although our balance sheet was in solid shape, we raised...”
Weny →
Weny is a link shortner that is used to associate links with your twitter id. Links remain associated with you even if they are forwarded or retweeted etc. Weny has a lot of ideas in the…
Weny is a link shortener that takes your twitterid so your links stay associated with you even after they’re forwarded/RT http://weny.ws/1TB
Microsoft Warns of SQL Attack http://weny.ws/1TD
http://twitpic.com/v5js - Having breakfast at the Coffee Club in Point Cook while hearing a pitch
Found a copy of Valley Boy at Borders. The clerk misheard me the first time and brought me Playboy before they rushed off embarrassed
Listening to @guykawasaki on KFI640 AM http://www.kfi640.com/main.html
http://twitpic.com/uu9k - Poking around a bookstore in town, found one of my old SQL 2000 books!
Trying to get some holiday reading in, mission today is to track down a copy of Valley Boy
Re: Web 4.48…MORE IDEAS….Less Idiots →
Hey great tip about getting into bio tech. I always thought it was too hard, but we can combine the best of Web 2.0 with “bio” to make something cool and start the billions flowing again. Maybe a…
http://twitpic.com/ugfp - Melbourne in the sunshine again
SSD and DB usage →
Image via Wikipedia Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009 to be the year of the SSD. While I agree SSD’s…
“During 2008, tech mergers and acquisitions fell 40 percent across virtually...”
– Tech M&A down 40 percent in 2008 | Business Tech - CNET News
The BB Bold isn’t as robust as I had hoped it would be. Crashes quite frequently, not as often as Windows Mobile but enough to annoy.
The Big Promise of Cloud Computing - BusinessWeek →
Howard Lindzon » If The US is FRAPAN (France and... →
Sweet the mall is open but website said closed so is deserted. Getting all shopping done now!
Gartner reveals top 30 offshoring hotspots -... →
“give your sales people all the knives.”
– Give Your Sales People All the Knives
RockSolid Cloud Services Edition →
Today we have announced our Cloud Services Edition of RockSolid. This edition is specifically targeted to organizations that provide SQL Server services in the cloud from in…
I am looking for a SQL management pack product manager contact in the Microsoft System Center group. Please DM me if you know someone here.
Telstra & Australian National Broadband Roll Out http://tinyurl.com/66yy98
Today we announce RockSolid Cloud Services Edition http://tinyurl.com/5fbj76
Australian National Broadband Roll Out →
Image via Wikipedia As you may have heard Telstra, Australia’s largest Telco and ISP and the provider of almost all current physical telecommunication network assets across…
Reviewing an app project while listening to VH1
My routing issue seems to have cleared itself up. For 12 hours I could access 50% of sites ok, the other 50% timed out or were very slow
Telstra BigPond technical support staff don’t have permission to access the Internet from their PC’s.
Was so bothered by HDD issue on one of my laptops now have installed RAID’d NAS on UPS power
Are any other AU peeps having problems getting to a lot of US sites? I haven’t been able to get to www.cnn.com for 12 hours now.
Why PC’s still suck http://tinyurl.com/5j2joa
http://twitpic.com/slx3 - Melbourne isn’t designed for more than 15 mins rain at a time
Why PC’s still suck →
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday afternoon I was showing my son some funny songs he liked on YouTube. The last one was the “Star Trekking Across the Universe” song, anyway…
Microsoft should buy Xobni just for the search function. Outlook’s search is terrible in comparison http://www.xobni.com
Re: There's Plenty Of Oxygen In The Air →
I work mostly in bread and butter (enterprise apps) and have seen the deal flow of the majors slow but as every keeps reiterating there is still good options available for good technology. My…
Met a bank today whos repsonse to climate is offshore more jobs. Gone are days of off shoring grunt jobs and keep innovation close to home.
TIMMS international Math’s & Science results http://tinyurl.com/5796kw. No surprise around how Australia is placed.
RT @brianaker: http://www.cloudstatus.com/ <— monitor AWS services uptime.
Golden Gate releases database mirroring for Ingres http://tinyurl.com/5jy2kw