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The Results of My Troubleshooting - A Bad Starter Gone

Can’t Troubleshoot? Don’t Apply!

If you can’t diagnose a problem and troubleshoot it, you can’t work with me. I interview for that skill.

Snow Starting To Fall

Prepare For the Disaster Before The Disaster

Kind of like some previous common sense posts inspired by mundane tasks (Day Job Tips learned from the garden, a dump trip, etc.), I was hit with another blog thought today. This goes well with my post – Plan To Fail or Don’t Expect To Succeed.
Updated: Added a sound piece of advice in the bullet [...]

My wife already told me - that is a big picture on the card...

Getting Organized – 451 Degrees, Good For Notebooks

[This is the 4th and final in a series of posts about "Getting Organized" using a better system and the Evernote tool-set for paperless notes (though you could do this with any such software).]
Getting Organized Series Outline

Introduction and License Giveaway
A Task’s Life
The Death of a Task, Man
451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks

Welcome to the final [...]

Almost Done!

Getting Organized – The Death of a Task, Man

Almost Done!
Not enough focus time that day, I guess.Almost Done!
Not enough focus time that day, I guess.

My Blog Fodder Notebook

Getting Organized – A Task’s Life

[This is part two in a series of posts about "Getting Organized" using the Evernote toolset.]
Getting Organized Series Outline

Introduction and License Giveaway
A Task’s Life
The Death of a Task, Man
451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks

The Life of A Task

The system I am using has a few stages. The stages all happen quickly as they are easy [...]

T-SQL Tuesday

T-SQL Tuesday – Captains Mentor and Teach

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Robert Davis (@SQLSoldier on twitter) and he asked us about learning and teaching. More on the Captain Quote at the bottom.
How Do you Learn? How Do you Teach? YES
Robert asked those two questions (along with some others) to help inspire ideas for the topic. If you combine [...]

Plan To Fail – Part Two

Let me share a little secret with you – You are going to fail. You’ll have multiple failures in diverse areas in life. It’s what you do with them that predicts if you’ll be an overall success.
In the first post of this two part series, we talked about including [...]