Paul S. Randal

In Recovery…

Category: Personal

Some thoughts on courage

(This is also the Ponderings – editorial – in today’s SQLskills newsletter.) I want to start out this post by sincerely thanking everyone who emailed

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2019: the year in books

Back in 2009 I started posting a summary at the end of the year of what I read during the year (see my posts from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,

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2017: the year in books

Back in 2009 I started posting a summary at the end of the year of what I read during the year (see my posts from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,

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10 years ago today…

…the second stage of my life ended, when I left Microsoft on August 31st, 2007. The first stage of my life was education, ending in

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A natural progression

Just over thirteen years ago, at the end of January 1999, I arrived in the US on an H1B visa to start working for Microsoft, after

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Vacation…

Don't expect any activity here for at least a couple of weeks as we're leaving today for a long-overdue dive trip (on the Belize Aggressor) –

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On vacation…

It's been a while since we had a vacation (and more than a year since we last went diving!!) so tomorrow we're off for a couple

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TGIF Time Warp

Once in a blue moon I come across something cool and it happens to be Friday, and I blog about it. Last time was drinking

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