{"id":388,"date":"2008-07-03T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/conor\/post\/Whats-Conor-been-doing.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-01T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:55:25","slug":"whats-conor-been-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/conor\/whats-conor-been-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Conor been doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I can tell you that I’ve been doing a few things lately.<\/P>
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1. I’m writing a chapter for an upcoming book – lots of interesting details like what you read here on the blog about query processing and query optimization.  It will come out around the end of the year.<\/P>
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2. I’ve been getting a new job – I’ll post some details on this soon.  This has taken some more time :).<\/P>
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3. I’ve been doing some consulting work – helping people with some of the more advanced topics in SQL Server.<\/P>
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4. I’ve been getting ready to improve the sprinkler system at my house – going to try this out: http:\/\/www.smarthome.com\/312cr.html<\/P>
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5. I’m going to try to fix my HTPC.  I have a Hauppage HDTV card that was working fine with Vista Ultimate + Media Center, and then I installed http:\/\/www.mythtv.org\/<\/A> – MythTV (and me trying to futz with it) won’t believe that I live in my actual timezone.  This tends to make recording things very difficult.  I believe that however it has installed Java has stored my timezone differently than windows.  Now the whole thing just doesn’t work, and I’ll call that “frustrating”.<\/P>
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6. I have been on an automation crusade, trying to automate various tasks around the installation and setup of my computers.  For example, I am collecting up the registry changes to fix up the windows UI to my liking on each new machine.  I am also writing scripts to install  all of my commonly used tools.  I have determined that I am too old to continue to fight through the same silly user interfaces each time I set up a VM or new machine.<\/P>
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I am still interested in any questions you have, but I’ll likely continue to post at a somewhat reduced rate until I get this book chapter done :).  I’ve got deadlines!<\/P>
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Happy Querying,<\/P>
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Conor Cunningham<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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