April 2023 – Spring break, work travel, and other stuff
Spring Break No school for the kiddos next week, so we’re headed to the beach. I have a couple of side projects that will keep me busy while I’m not thinking about work: a...
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Scenes from Bergen, Norway – Part 2
Flying into Bergen reminded me of flying into Seattle, except all those hills and islands were bare and green instead of peppered with houses over every square inch. There is no practical way to...
Scenes from Bergen, Norway – Part 1
This week I was in Oslo for SQLSaturday #667 – I gave a pre-con on Friday, then two regular sessions and a vendor spotlight on Saturday. I posted my regular session slide decks and...
Where I was on 9/11
Luke & I – September 2001 About a week before that fateful day 15 years ago, I landed at MSP to meet with my good friend Luke Magnus. We were in a group of...
A Week in Poland, Part 4 : Kraków / Warsaw
After the emotional roller coaster of visiting Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Grant and I were both very glad to be on to brighter and happier places. We stopped in Kraków but our...
A Week in Poland, Part 3 : Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
The main Auschwitz I camp (I blogged about earlier) gets all the attention. It has most of the iconic imagery everyone associates with the Holocaust, most notably the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate (“Work Sets...
A Week in Poland, Part 2 : Auschwitz I
I feel all kinds of different emotions for all kinds of different people – sorrow, envy, pity, joy. But nothing is as breathtaking as stepping inside a concentration camp, and the inevitable and involuntary...
A Week in Poland, Part 1 : Wrocław
This week I’ve been in Poland – for the first half of the week I spoke at SQLDay in Wrocław, and now I’m doing some tooling around the country. This was some fantastic isolated...