I am sure this isn’t news to those who have been swimming in the web 2.0 end of the pool, but I am fascinated by how connected all the social networks have become. I update this blog and you can read the post on my LinkedIn profile. I send out a tweet and it’s fed to this blog, plus it’s integrated with my Facebook account.

Those hesitent to start a Facebook or Twitter account fear of too much time spent keeping all these social networks up to date. But as time goes by it appears to organically growing into one network.

We’re all jacked into the matix now.

This week saw the arrival of a new member of our family. My wife and I are now the proud parents of a baby girl.

The Geek

A long time ago I was a hospital orderly at the old Traverse City Osteopathic Hospital, and the nurse midwife who delivered our baby was a nurse at the same hospital. During a calm moment after the delivery we started going to memory lane talking our late lamented “Osteo.” I started remembering how with some patients we documented I & O, or ins and outs. The “I” tracked food the patient ate. The “O” tracked, well, output (insert scatalogical joke here). This data was used by the nurses and physicians as a diagnostic metric for assessing the patient’s condition. Now more more than fifteen years later as a DBA, I document I/O, or Input and Output as a diagnostic metric for assessing the condition and performance of a SQL Server instance.