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  • Republish: Upgrading Your OS

    Two Fridays in a row. Last week I was in Dallas at a volleyball tournament. Today I’m flying all day, returning from the UK. It’s the Easter holiday there, and some of you might be taking off today as well.

    Hopefully it’s a smooth journey for me, but you get to re-read Upgrading Your OS, which is an interesting one for me to look back on. I’m still on W10 on my desktop, but Microsoft is again pushing an upgrade, this time to Windows 11.

    I didn’t love the upgrade on my previous laptop, but the new one I got late last year seems OK. Some weird things with W11 have me hesitating to upgrade the desktop, but I’m torn. I certainly don’t want to get away from security updates.

    How do you feel? Leave a comment in the editorial.

  • Republish: The Changing Nature of Data

    Today I’m in Dallas, coaching 14 year olds in a volleyball tournament. This is our last travel trip with the team, and this is day 1. Hopefully we get a good draw and have some success.

    While I’m wearing earplugs in a large convention center with 1,000 screaming teenage girls, you get to re-read The Changing Nature of Data.

  • Editorial Republish: The SQL Twilight Zone

    Once again, I’m not home. This time it’s vacation, well, working vacation. I’m in New Orleans to coach a volleyball team at a tournament this weekend. Hopefully I’m not too jet-lagged after my week of Denver-London-Denver-New Orleans travel.

    In any case, I thought it appropriate to republish the SQL Twilight Zone. If SQL Server goes away, I’ll pick any other platform. Snowflake sounds interesting now, but Oracle, PosrgreSQL, I’m not particular. I like working with data and helping others do the same.

  • Editorial Republish: Horrible Bosses

    Maybe I’m actually watching this movie as you read this. After 48 hours in London, I’m heading back to Colorado today.

    Actually a little more. I landed at 940a Monday and left at 11:35am today, a whirlwind trip to this amazing city. Not the first time I’ve done it, and likely not the last.

    You get to re-read Horrible Bosses as I try to figure out how to get back on a different time zone.