Buy an hour of time for a good cause!

In the words of Stephen Forte, “Bid early, bid often.”


I am constantly amazed at the technical breadth and depth of the team of Microsoft Regional Directors… Roughly 150 people from every corner of the world who not only work in technology but also love it (well, most of the time :)…  I’ve been honored to be a member of this community for the past two years and they never cease to impress me. This blog entry only takes my ever-increasing respect for this group up a notch (especially for having thought about it and inspired us to join in)!


Fellow RD Stephen Forte, working with the Data Farm guru Julia Lerman, asked a group of RDs to donate 1 hour of their time – to be auctioned off on EBay – with all proceeds going to help fund relief efforts in the Aceh Province of Indonesia. 30 RDs have and I’m truly excited to be a part of it.


So, bid early, bid often. The auction runs through the 2nd of February 2005 at 6PM PST.

5 thoughts on “Buy an hour of time for a good cause!

  1. To,

    Kimberly L Tripp.
    Skool Prinsipal.

    Re: Please blog a little more
    —————————–

    Respected Madam,
    We the students of 2nd grade of SqlSkills.com skool, would want to lern a littal bit more than we have been lately.

    We would upprciate if you would kindly blog a little bit more and teach us a littal bit more kool stuff.

    Regards,
    Class Representative.
    2nd Grade.
    KL Tripp Sql Skills Skool.

  2. I’m completely snowed but will be blogging soon with some kule code! In the interim, you migt want to brush up on your english speeling and grandma at: http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml instead of http://www.industrialandmarine.com/mt/ :-)

    In all seriousness though, part of the silence was caused by these recent posts:

    *** SQL Server 2005 Partitioned Tables
    http://www.sqlskills.com/resources/Whitepapers/Partitioning%20in%20SQL%20Server%202005%20Beta%20II.htm

    *** SQL Server 2005 Snapshot Isolation
    http://www.sqlskills.com/resources/Whitepapers/SQLServer2005SnapshotIsolation.pdf

    Now those will keep you busy! More good stuff coming… I’ve really just been slammed!!!

    kt

  3. Well, this is one of Kimberly’s biggest fans and I’ve decided that the only way to get attention from her is to post something on her blog.

    If you think she’s a phenomenal teacher you should be so lucky as to be her friend….. = )

    Hi Kim!!!!!! Guess who this is???

    Clue #1 – Don’t ever ask me to navigate while driving across E. Washington. We may end up hours off course in terrible fog!

    Clue #2 – No, I did NOT think you had a thing for Mr. Kelley.

    Clue #3 – Your attendance at our Open House this year made my holidays.

  4. btw – my regular email is not working right now so you’ll have to email me at my old hotmail address. if you don’t have it – it is my first name followed by "KG" (the initials of my maiden and married last names)

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