Speaking

  • Random questions

    Just some things I have questions about, that I’m hoping maybe some of my readers might have some information on. Warning, some of them may be obvious, I’m just having trouble finding the obvious solution! – Why does Gmail sometimes take two attachments that I send with an email and mash them into one DAT…

  • Distractions

    I’ve noticed a somewhat significant drop in traffic the last couple of weeks. No surprise there, the weather’s getting nicer. In turn, weekends get busier, folks are out of the office on vacation, etc. Heck this weekend, I hardly spent any time at all on-line, so I understand! I get distracted from posting, let alone…

  • Pictures, pictures

    I arrived safely back home from vacation yesterday, in time to spend the weekend with my lovely wife. I finished going through the pictures tonight and put up a couple of albums from this trip:http://www.mikemcbrideonline.com/gallery/Charlottesvillehttp://www.mikemcbrideonline.com/gallery/SkylineDrive-HarpersFerry Of course, I also finished up Finnegan’s pictures from this trip as well over on his blog. Speaking of pictures,…

  • Training done..

    I managed to live through teaching database class this morning. It could have gone better, but I guess I’ll live with it. I simply don’t do this sort of thing often enough to have the sort of grasp of the material and the personalities involved to make it much better than it was. Now, I’m…