Category: Other

  • Essential Software for Windows Machine

    Update 20100915: added WinSplit Update 20090830: took out anti-virus software. I now run Windows without it. Also, added CDBurnerXP. This entry was originally posted on November 22, 2005. I made some modifications to it. Right now I am giving Google Reader a try. Therefore FeedDemon is not part of my essentials anymore. I recently rebuilt […]

  • Discarded newsletter piece

    Imagine you have a time machine at hand. Rewind back a few years, or decades, depending on where you are in your life, to the point when you were fresh out of university, got your first job, and ready to change the world. You were full of enthusiasm and ideas. You were still in touch […]

  • Some autumn and winter 2006 pictures

    Fall colors at Brookfield Zoo Fall colors at Morton Arboretum Snow, Oak Park, Illinois Not sure what the red tree fruit/nut is called The old way of farm life on display at a children and craft fair in a town north of Waco, Texas, during Thanksgiving. Some of it is pretty similar to what I […]

  • Some pictures at PASS Seattle 2006

    I enjoyed the time I had in Seattle last week while attending PASS 2006 Sql Server conference. My schedule was full so I didn’t have time to walk around and check out the city. My extremely limited impression of Seattle is positive. For whatever reason, I always have the impression that the Northwest and Northeast […]

  • At PASS conference in Seattle

    After 2 hours of flight delay, I’ve made it to Seattle. I am attending PASS Sql Server conference here. No, not the P.A.S.S. above. (I got that picture from a place not too far from where I work in Chicago area.) The PASS I am talking about here is Professional Association for Sql Server. I […]