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I'll be reading at the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at Dragoncon on Sunday, September 2, at 5:30pm in Greenbriar. Woe, my current story is 23,000+ words long and conflict-poor. It needs some serious, serious editing. But I was not writing at $previous_job, so...
A Script for Migrating SQL Data (and Log) Files
Suppose that you've been asked to migrate 166 databases' .mdf files from one drive to another. How would you do that? I'd generate a list based on the .mdf files (the databases are all named the same thing as the .mdf. If this wasn't the case, we'd have to query SQL...
Write or Die Redux
I was doing 250 words a day as a goal, but Jen and I signed up for stickK together. It looked like a time commitment would work better with their site than a wordcount commitment, so I said ten minutes a day/an hour a week. This works a lot better than I expected. I...
True Confessions
I run Nagios at home. It texts me when my machines need patches. I told this to a charming gentleman who was my dinner companion for the evening and he gave me a look that implied that I was not all there. (He's a Nagios admin, too, but not willingly.) I found...
Clearly, you’re doing it wrong.
So, I have this friend. (No, really, it's my friend, it's not me, I set up my own Nagios server.) She's a DBA with no responsibility for anything outside of a bunch of SQL Servers. Nagios wakes her up in the middle of the night if the web server goes down. If you...
Tea
We interrupt your regularly scheduled computer geekery to bring you tea. I've been really getting into tea lately. Also, caffeine abuse is a vital component of geek culture, and tea is relatively neglected (unless you're steampunk). So. Loose leaf, my darlings. ...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.