Year: 2012

I tried to shower at the hospital this morning. Really, I did. But I failed to distract the one 5th floor nurse’s attention away from the clear anguish of returning a fake Gucci purse to …

I’m glad I can stop calling her SheBert, though I will probably still refer to that way from time to time. 🙂 We named our first daughter Madeline Autumn Pearl Bertrand. She was born September …

It only took us 8 months, and we still have a couple of little fixes to make, but I’m happy to say that yesterday we declared our daughter’s room “ready.” We still need to fasten …

Nicole is due on September 28th, so we thought we could take one last weekend while we could to get away. I’ll be in Cambridge for a SQL Saturday this coming weekend, then a SQL …

A few weeks ago, Mat Honan changed my life. Okay, it wasn’t that drastic, but he really made me step back and really take a look at how I manage my digital life. Because, as …

Since my blog content at my old company’s site seems to be selectively disappearing, I’m grabbing the content that I can and re-publishing here, before it all goes away. This was originally published on June …

I have two services with National Grid: electricity and natural gas. I have opted in to both of their paperless billing systems. When an e-mail comes telling me that a bill is ready, the subject …

Last week I spent in Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. The purpose of my trip was a work conference: SQL Server 2012 & SharePoint Connections in Berchtesgaden, Germany. The conference was interesting, though there were …

Since my blog content at my old company’s site seems to be selectively disappearing, I’m grabbing the content that I can and re-publishing here, before it all goes away. This was originally published on June …

Since my blog content at my old company’s site seems to be selectively disappearing, I’m grabbing the content that I can and re-publishing here, before it all goes away. This was originally published on May …