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Confessions of a Monitoring Junkie

You may be asking yourself, “Self, why should I cough up cash for SQL Monitor or spend time (or pay someone to spend time) setting up Nagios?” The answer, of course, is:  Do you want to know something is wrong now, or when a customer calls you and says...

The Motivational Spreadsheet of Doom

Hi, my name is Katherine and I’m a metrics junkie. I have an outline spreadsheet based on the Snowflake method to which I’ve added wordcount secret sauce formulas.  I downloaded it for NaNoWriMo many years ago.  I then have a tab that’s nothing but...

You and Your Resume

I should really call this post, “Everything I ever learned about job hunting I learned from writing,” even though that’s not really true.  However, there are, in fact, writing links in here.  (I’m a published short fiction author under a...

Fitting it all in.

Yes, it’s another post on the continuing saga. New job.  New job means new schedule.  New schedule means figuring out how to work all the other, non-job things I want to do into my life. Yeah.  It’s a process. First up:  running.  Since I’m off the...

SQL Saturday #111

As always, I had an awesome time at SQL Saturday.  I heard at least two people say that the SQL community is full of genuinely nice people, and it certainly seems to be true.  I followed a bunch of new people on Twitter and won a Kindle Fire! (By the way, if...

Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading

I’ll be reading at WisCON again this year! May 26, 1pm, Conference 2, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin. A chance to meet the writers and hear the work of some of the most exciting new talent in our genres. The readers of Broad Universe will drop you into...

As promised…

I said that all would be revealed in the fullness of time.  I have a new job.  One with a less heinous commute. Which means, of course, that it’s time to get back on the writing horse.  And the running horse, because working 40 hours a week + 4 hours a day...

This Saturday is SQL Saturday!

This Saturday, I’ll be joining all the SQL geeks (including someone who’s been my friend since 1996) to listen to talks on SQL at the GSU campus in Alpharetta.  I’d say “Be there or be square!” but it’s sold out, so, alas, if...

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