by Katherine Villyard | Apr 29, 2012 | monitoring
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 29, 2012 | procrastination
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 21, 2012 | career
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 21, 2012 | life, the universe, and everything
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 15, 2012 | geekiness
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 13, 2012 | cons
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 12, 2012 | life, the universe, and everything
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...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 12, 2012 | geekiness
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...