Feature Article #1
How to change the port in sql server management express (ssms)
I chased my tail around for awhile on this before finally coming across a post on google… those crazy folks at Microsoft decided that rather than using the standard IPAddress:port with a colon, they would use a comma instead! So… when you’re using SSMS to connect to a Sql Server on a non-standard port… this [...]
Feature Article #2
Techno Apathy
For the most part, new technology fails to excite or impress me. Don’t get me wrong… I’m always interested in technology that genuinely makes a difference in our lives… but I haven’t come across much of that lately. I’m frequently asked by my friends, and sometimes my family members to give recomendations on various toys [...]
Feature Article #3
Decision making within the life cycle of complex systems
Matt and I were talking today about the role that decision making plays in our lives… and I mentioned how when you’re younger, you have fewer decisions to make… but they are more critical, while as you age, you have a greater number of decisions to make the older you get (until it plateaus at [...]
Feature Article #4
Momentum as one of your greatest assets
A few months ago, I had a friend who’s car would not start while he was visiting me at my house. Fortunately it was a stick shift… and anyone who has driven one of these knows what it means to ‘pop’ start it when the battery is dead. For those who have not had the [...]
Feature Article #5
Hosting Provider Challenges
1 year.
That’s about my average stay at any given hosting provider. I think it must be timed with hosting software product releases or something, because it’s actually pretty spooky… but it always seems like right around 1 year renewal is when I inevitably start looking for a new relationship. Like that car that ran great [...]
About this Site
This site has started basically just as a stomping grounds for my thoughts, a journal of sorts used to get things out of my head and into a format where if anyone was interested, including me, they would be able to read it. Some of the things here are about my job, but most of [...]
