Can you hear me now?

(sorry, couldn't resist)

It's odd how companies are befuddled that we don't want certain service features. I could care less about text messaging and have never sent or received one. I...

Brilliant! I must write some, I love humorous haiku!

That's odd. I heard on NPR last week, or possibly the week before, that US workers were actually working shorter hours than many other countries around the world. ...

When I was in Maine a couple of weeks ago on vacation and wandering on the beach I figured out a solution for a problem that's been plaguing me for...

Excellent point, Kristin. In my job, I don't do first tier user support, I only work with users when it is database issues. My PC at work is...

Yeah! *chants* One of us! One of us!

Sitting next to me is my MacBook Pro running Win2K Pro with both Sql 2000 and SQL 2005 installed. I do...

If you're using mirroring, from what I understand, you would need to do a snapshot of your primary database as the mirror is in recovery mode while the primary is...

If you work in government (man, I just realized I've got close to 15 years in working for gov't!), anything that you write might be public domain and could be...

Oh, man! I had that happen! Can't remember which program forced the reboot. I think I'd been telling it to 'Restart Later' and eventually the machine decided...

We have a Crystal Reports developer in my group. She's doing a complicated series of reports on data that is now in Access: she needed a static data set...

Myself, I've isolated my personal blog/email from my job application process (not that I'm doing that right now). I don't want my employer looking at my blog before I'm...

Is this a Vista-only app? I don't have 2005 online right now to play with it yet, I was wondering because the window control boxes are different.

Business needs drive just about everything. I use an XP Pro workstation at work to wrangle my SQL Servers. I use Office 2003 and hate the thought of...

Hmmm. Never heard of it. I, too, don't like the potential risk of drive failure from these things being powered down for so long, even if they are...