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 [...]
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Plan To Fail – Part Two
Plan To Fail Or Don’t Expect To Succeed
In this post I’m going to let you in on a secret- You are going to fail. More than once and in more than one way. It’s what you do with the failure that matters.
Day Job Lessons From The Garden
It’s spring and in addition to our usual vegetable garden and some existing fruit crops, we are putting in a row of 15 blueberry bushes. Well the past two nights I’ve been outside for 3-4 hours digging a trench (about 40′ long by 2.5′ wide and 1′ deep. right, I said feet.) by hand and [...]
Conciseness
Mike’s blog has been hijacked by a duck.
… okay, maybe not. Hi, I’m K. Brian Kelley and I am guest blogging on Mike’s blog. Normally I write on security topics over at SQL Server Central, but I couldn’t resist following up to this excellent blog post by Mike.
Why Conciseness Matters
Ever open an email that looks [...]
One Man’s Trash…
Do you live in a town with a dump? I do (well, transfer station). On any given weekend you can find people looking for treasure in the scrap metal or electronics bins.
I never thought I’d say it, but over the past couple weeks of visiting the dump, I have found an amazing treasure that will [...]
What’s Your Point?
As a DBA you are getting pinched between developers, project managers, budget conscious managers and server teams. When a critical issue with no one easy answer for those people pops up, what do you do? You can panic or try and point the blame someplace else or you can rise to the situation and help [...]
Work Now or Work (And Pay) Later
Work costs something whenever you do it…
This weekend we had some nice weather on Sunday. In between church activities and family time, I took advantage of the weather to get some work done on our vegetable garden. We chose to try a “no dig” raised bed vegetable garden. Basically you pile various materials (grass clippings, [...]
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