It would be cool if Bill Gates and Warren Buffet stopped by for a ping pong match on my birthday. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/gatesbuffettpingpongsmall.jpg

I hope you have or had a...

More people than you realize recognize you as the source of this info. We appreciate it. Good job.

Thanks for the laughs! As a Father of three daughters, I too often experience these same shifting requirements and post implementation surprises. Of course I wouldn't trade it for anything....

PASS this year will be great because:

There's plenty of great brew pubs nearby

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=Seattle+brew+pubs

and you can visit the Original Starbucks. Whether you enjoy their coffee or not it's...

Steve,

Encouraging the community to contribute and help improve SQL Server is great for everyone. I think the community is one of reasons the product continues to grow so dynamically. Allow...

Steve,

Congratulations! You really earned this award. From your perch high atop the dkRanch, you daily provide priceless leadership to the SQL Server community. From a vendor’s perspective you are a...

Steve, your mention of executive assistant reminded me of this article from Wired. “Your Outboard Brain Knows All” by Clive Thompson. (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson ) It is interesting to read...

We dumped our landline 2 years ago and haven’t missed it one bit. With my wife, eldest daughter and I on a decently large shared cell phone plan, it became...

OK...OK...if the boss insists first class travel would be...

Come on - somebody's got to chime in with gadgets! I would enjoy a Pocket PC phone that works reliably. Don’t get me wrong my PPC-6700 (an HTC device) works...

Just have to share this story from the early days of Ticketron. They were an early computerized event ticketing service in the Mid-Atlantic US area. Ticketron offered ticketing terminals to...

Please visit http://www.charlotte-sql.org for more details on the Charlotte SQL Server User Group.

Thanks, hope to see you at the meeting.

Peter Shire

President

Charlotte SQL Server Users Group

Oh t-shirts can be an issue. I have tons from my time at Microsoft and trades with other vendors. Of course plenty of SQL Sentry t-shirts but my favorite remains...

Building the dashboard would be fun but it's still hard work. Designing the UI can be enjoyable but it would be the icing on a hard project. The work is...

Dave, I wish I lived in Texas so I could vote for you. No kidding. Hope to meet you at PASS.

Peter