I've just started a new feed category for WinFS. Dan and Niels both have piqued by interest in it, so watch this feed for referals and bits of content on the technology.
Priming the pump:
Got more? list 'em below please.
Yesterday was my 39th birthday. I’ve never felt so young and so old all at the same time. It was also the first day that I happened to really read Melissa Kronenthal’s blog where she celebrated International blog day (310G) by pointing her readers to five of her most recently discovered subscriptions. Sad as it is to say, though, I don’t have five new one to point you at. But here’s a couple that’s worth reading regularly.
- Hatrack River, Orson Scott Card’s blog about… well, the stuff OSC is interested in.
- Jim Svoboda’s blog. Jim and I go back a long ways and he’s really one of the best examples of somebody who didn’t let growing up in Nebraska screw him up too much. Its fun to read stuff like his “Windows” post when you really need a break from all the geek blogery.
So, having my birthday on blog day strikes me a fitting. I need to blog more, but I want to get back to doing more original work rather than commenting on others works. Expect to see that soon.
One of my Birthday traditions is to find something to set the tone for the next year’s growth. For the past dozen plus years, I’ve always selected something technical and usually something IT related. The idea is to see how many times over the course of year I can reuse the ideas suggested by that in new and different ways. For example, last year’s them was Michael Brundage's XQuery book. It served me well. But this year is different – I’m not going start with a book, I’m starting with music instead. And this year’s theme is Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban’s "Mambo Sinuendo." So far, I’m really digging it. It reminds me a lot more of Perez Prado than them simply covering his song "Patricia." Which reminds me of Janell and I enjoy. Of course, I can’t listen to Ry without thinking about the times before Janell came into my life. There’s even parts of these songs that stir things deeper. All the way back to the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
As I sat down to write this, it really became evident to me that there’s an amazing circularity to my life. Melissa’s showing up on my RSS list isn’t directly related to my passion for SQL Server because of who her parents are, but because I’m also interested in food. It just so happens that she’s related to one best people in the SQL Server world. Jim’s blog showing on my most recently added list – somebody that I knew when I was a screwed up teenager makes me laugh that we both got through the curse of Fremont. Another connection. With just a few minutes of play time for Mambo Sinuendo, the circularity of all was as clear as the sunrise.