I subscribe to and read over 100 SQL Server blogs every day. I link to posts that I think are interesting [http://www.sqlteam.com/sql-server-links.aspx]. I also read a fair number of non-SQL Server blogs. Here are a few that I think are interesting. danah boyd [http://www.…
I’ve been a Google user so long I can hardly remember what I used before it. Alta Vista maybe? Or Yahoo. I’ve tried Bing off and on but it never really stuck. I probably care more about search engines than your average user because of their impact on…
Each week I send out a SQL Server newsletter [http://www.sqlteam.com/newsletter.aspx] and include links to interesting blog posts. I’ve linked to over 500 blog posts so far in 2010. Late last year I started storing those links in a database so I could do a…
This summer I had the chance to visit China. My brother and his wife are living in China and teaching English. I spent a little over two weeks in Shanghai, Suzhou and Yancheng. During that time I wrote some detailed updates for family and a few close friends on the…
Over the last year I’ve watched my usage of Facebook change. A party in my hometown really capped off the change. When I started out on Facebook all my friends were technology people. Facebook hadn’t invaded my hometown yet. I grew up in Baldwin City [http://www.baldwincity.…
Bing just announced a visual search feature [http://www.bing.com/visualsearch]. I mostly clicked on it because I enjoy bright, shiny things. Wow! I just spent 30 minutes filtering NFL players in all sort of weird ways. I don’t know how that helps my fantasy team yet. But…
I put my name down for the Google Voice [http://www.google.com/voice] trial a few months back. I recently received my invitation and configured my account. The entire process was painless and it has some interesting benefits: * I’m in the process of starting a new business and…
When I connect my laptop to Wi-Fi hotspots I’m usually pretty careful. I look at the name of what I’m connecting to and make sure it looks reasonable. I know it’s no guarantee but if there is only one wi-fi hotspot with the airport name there’s…
Until this weekend I hadn’t done much with Bing. I looked at the pretty pictures and tried a search now and then but that’s about it. I recently stumbled on Bing vs. Google [http://www.bing-vs-google.com/]. You can enter your search text and it will search both…
I wrote earlier on ways I’m storing some of my files offsite [http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2009/05/04/Storing-My-Files-in-the-Cloud.aspx] . Since then I’ve made a small change. Previously I used JungleDisk to copy shared folders on my HP Windows Home Server to Amazon S3. The…