I take too long…

Yes, it’s been 14 days since my last post.  What can I say, I take too long.  Hopefully I’m worth the wait.

I’m currently in an SQL class, it follows the curriculum for 2780b, titled “Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database”.  Not exactly my cup of tea, but I won’t turn training down. It’s kind of odd to take a class in the middle of another class (the Vista one I mentioned has been interrupted by this SQL one).  It appears that SQL 2005 has come a long way from 2000.  I had a very brief class on Transact-SQL which is/was based on 2000.  As I write this, SQL 2008 has been released last month (June 2008).  I can’t help but wonder if they have improved on the “Studio” style interface they introduced in 2005.

and it begins

Well, my first post. I’m currently in a training class on Windows Vista, which I personally have been slow to adopt. So far I’ve enjoyed it, I think mostly because of the instructor’s broad knowledge. That and he doesn’t have a bias towards or against MS.

It’s not that I dislike Vista, it just seems (like a lot of software lately) to be, well, half-baked. Some of the ideas and implementations of those ideas are great, and I like them.  Other ideas are great, and the implementations aren’t so hot.  On the whole, it’s an OK product.  I’m neutral towards it as an OS.  More specifically, nothing about it excites me.  I guess you could say that in the 10 years or so I’ve used Microsoft’s operating systems, the sensation of a treadmill has come over me.

On the other hand, I do get exited when I toy around with Linux or open-source software.  I’m no Linux fan-boy, so don’t worry about that.  But more about that later.