Or maybe part 3, depending.

 Amazon reduced the cost of the Kindle yesterday. It's $40 off, a 10% discount, down to $359 from $399 and that's tempting. I've got some Amazon credits, about $100, and since I could conceivably deduct this as a business expense, review it for the site,… Read more

After being gone for 4 days, I've got a little catching up to do. I try to be prepared before I leave, but I also like to be ahead of the curve, especially with the daily grind of articles, QODs, scripts, and of course, editorials.

 I took my video laptop… Read more

 This is really interesting to me:

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This year I've been lucky enough to have been offered some prizes or promotions from a few different companies for different things. I don't really want to name names, because I think the offers or awards were nice gestures and made with the best of intentions to me and others.… Read more

 Some very interesting responses to my CLR editorial today including some good details that I haven't seen elsewhere. I'm still thinking that we're missing a lot of examples that might convince people to give the CLR a try, or implement it in their applications and I'm going to try and… Read more

 I saw that Erland Sommerskag posted a Connect item that asked for a "View Variable" to be added to the SQL language. The idea is that you would be able to declare a variable that was a query of some sort and then use that in places where you might… Read more

 After the editorial on the Kindle, which got quite a few responses, I've continued to look around and research things. I saw an interesting comparison with a husband and wife who have both. There are some interesting things on the Sony reader, especially in the comments, but I'm not… Read more

A minor change for the podcasts next week. I got my wireless microphone, and I'm working with it a bit for Monday. It's nice, especially as I have to get up, change clothes, adjust things, etc. In the past I've had to worry about undoing the mic so I could… Read more

I thought they were, but I've had a bit of a debate in the forums with someone. There was a question on backup schemes and one person mentioned they use backup devices and send the full and differentials to one file behind the device and logs to another.  We went… Read more

I've never really been a big fan of many of the aggregation sites. As such I have never really used Digg, Delicious, etc. However we heard at the recent MVP Summit that Technorati was used by Microsoft in their examinations of the community. So I decided to check it out… Read more

One of the things that I made a conscious effort to do last summer was make a regular effort to post in the forums at SQLServerCentral.com. I'd been neglecting them for a couple years, rarely tracking anything other than the Editorials, Suggestions, and Anything Not SQL forums and putting posts… Read more