It’s OK To Eat Alone

There’s a lot to be said for the philosophy of Never Eat Alone, using meals as a great time to...

Marketing Ideas for Chapters & SQLSaturday

I’m part of the team putting together SQLSaturday #151 in Orlando this year, and one of the things Kendal Van...

Watson Plays Jeopardy

I watched the documentary on Nova about the IBM project to build Watson, a computer that could play Jeopardy. The...

LinkedIn Group Recommendations-Not Quite Useful

I received an email from LinkedIn suggesting that I might find these groups useful:
 

I’m sure those map back to someone...

Build a Little Free Library

I saw this on the Boing Boing feed yesterday, Little Free Library is a project to try to build 2500...

Expectations-The Big Disconnect

One of the things I’ve learned from running events is to set expectations. If you’re going to provide coffee don’t...

The Brain Dump Blog

I was chatting with a friend recently and he said he could never blog the way I do. Which way...

Go Look at NELL

NELL (Never Ending Language Learning) is a computer system that is trying to learn to read the web. Couple things...

Varied and Interesting Links

Here are some things I’ve run across in the past few weeks you may find interesting:
FailCon. Billed as a one-day...

SQLRally 2012-Closing Thoughts

It was interesting to watch an event that started 17 months ago with Dallas, Nashville, and Denver submitting applications to...