Proud To Be Access

2008-03-02T22:14:03+01:00

Every month I would go to Webwedesdays or what my girlfriend calls "the geek event" It's a networking event for people with Web Based Businesses.

I've been going along for the past couple of years but I must confess, I have been suffering from a inferiority complex of late, because I when I say build databases in Ms Access the way the Mysqlites or Oraclees look at me is as though I said I eat London pigeon on rye toast!

But not anymore!

I was just reading a blog called The Benefits Of Using Microsoft Access and it was great, some of the benefits mentioned where that according to Microsoft, "more than 200 can use the current version of Access at once" and "there are lower development rates and more developers. Another benefit is that Access is also scalable"

So watch out Webwednesdays i'm coming back this month bigger and badder, and I'm gonna be strutting my funky stuff all the way to the event like Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever.

Say it Loud, I'm Access & I'm Proud

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The Geek & the Cilivan

2008-02-09T09:47:47+01:00

Is it just me or are we database dudes and dolls just straight up and down boring to cilivans? Yes you read it right, Cilivan: [sil-li-van] A person clued up on much in life but a total dork when it comes to matters of IT.

When you go to a party, is it just me or when someone askes, "so what do you do?" you say "I'm a Lion Tamer" because if you where to say, I'm a database programmer, you KNOW that the cilivan will:

- Stop all conversation, pretend to see a friend and leave.
- Fein interest ask you "what's all that about then?" and as you explain the difference between a bit and and integer you watch as their eyes roll towards the back of their head and fall asleep right there.
- They say something totally ignorant like "Cool, maybe you can help me with networking my house."

Let me give you and example, I have a friend who is an Angelic Reiki and Shamballa Healer. She Joined ecademy.com just over a week ago and now has 18 People who want to connect with her with regard to her business. I have been an ecademist for over a year and I have 1 person, a person who I didnt even meet via the site!!

It's official, While we practice our hexidecimal countifs and nested loops, we have forgotten the art of dealing with the cilivan. I have no idea what is happening on Eastenders. I couldn't hold a conversation on how drunk I got last weekend, where the happening bar is or who's CD I rate more, Lilly Allen's or Amy Winehouse

And this is a problem for one reason and one reason only, because they pay us!

So what do you do? how do you say what you do without putting people to sleep?

Where can I go out dancing, take my pocket protector, my laptop bag and have a conversation about just what is going on in Lost?

I look forward to hearing from you!

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