Author: Jen McCown

It really was all good times at the user group meeting tonight.  Sean and I met up before the meeting for another meeting, on SQL Saturday. We’re on the planning committee with 4 or 5 others.  SQL Saturday, for those who don’t know, is a day of free SQL training put on by local user group […]

I was just despairing, because I’m in a little bit of a writing slump. “I’m not doing anything exciting at work”, I thought.  “Where on earth will I find inspiration for my next blog?”  Then, the gods opened a query window unto me, and there sheweth me an unholy violation of the immortal commandment: Thou […]

There’s a chapter or two in a Madeline L’Engle book that describes a race of aliens that have no concept of sight.  There was an extended conversation with one of the protagonists, where each side tried to explain perception on the other side of the sense gap.  I’ve pondered for some time the different senses that nonhuman […]