According to Yahoo!, and several other news outlets, rejection really does hurt. Physically, that is. Professor Ethan Kross, University of Michigan, Edward Smith, Columbia University, and unnamed colleagues conducted a...
I am such a DC Comics fangirl (I would like to write novelizations and comics for them) that I just had to post a link to this YouTube trailer. If...
You thought your job was bad? Wait until you hear about these nine jobs! You’ll be shocked and horrified and more grateful than ever for the job you have now...
SQUEE. I’m so excited. The Ladies of Trade Town, the anthology to which I sold "Silk and Steam," is not only coming out in June, A-Kon 22 is hosting a...
I’ve seen a lot of advice on the net lately advising people to use Excel templates for their SSIS packages, but I haven’t seen many articles discussing how to create...
#WIT = Twitter hashtag for Women in Technology. I’m not sure where the numbers come from, but everyone in my local SQL Saturday community seems to agree that the number of...
I was having an interesting conversation on SQLServerCentral.com today about non-native English speakers, which triggered an introspective thought. Communication is difficult enough without cultural slang interspersed into it. In the United...
Yesterday, someone asked a question on SQLServerCentral.com that caught my attention: “What would be the best way for defragging a disk on which database files are also stored?” This poster...
I’ve heard the stories at the conventions. Editing is hard work. Editors are poorly paid. Editors do a lot of work for little kudos and next-to-no recognition. And I believe those...
When I attended Viable Paradise, someone said to me that authors were only allowed one or two exclamation points per work. Other people have heard 5 or 10, but the...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
