Thanks to a nice wordpress.com feature you can now access this blog at blog.srlanger.com. I did things this way (instead of hosting WP myself) since it saves me from the hassles of maintaining the software – while still attributing links to a domain that I own. See you there!
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
New home
April 25, 2007Happy New Year!
December 31, 2006It’s that time of the year again, so let me wish you and your relatives all the best for 2007. May the new year bring you happiness and success – in whatever form you wish to define the latter;-)
Happy New Year!
Google ranking
November 13, 2006Considering my shifting requirements (more family, more work, less hacking), it only made sense to migrate my personal website over to a hosted wordpress blog. The Pair Networks team has been wonderful over the last few years but I simply don’t need that much infastructure.
It’s always fun to check your Google ranking once you’ve performed such a change. As of today, the second entry that Google picks is a link to a fairly irrelevant post about multi-level marketing. The fifth entry actually links to the WordPress “relocation” tag page where my short piece on what I learned looking for a job is (for whatever reason) picked as the day’s featured blog.
Switching over to Google groups (Usenet, really) provides a different, unfortunate picture. Boy, what was I even thinking about 10 years ago? I had probably spent too much time trying to get things to work and frustration way beginning to become apparent. This has got to be a lesson to remember…
Hopefully this blog’s content related to Data Management and Business Intelligence with progressively take precedence over less relevant material.
I’d rather have this piece comparing Business Objects and Microsoft Analysis Services cubes come up first;-)
Fatherhood quotes
April 19, 2006Continuous Education
September 19, 2005Since I spent some time identifying training resources that relate to banking & finance in the area (mostly Geneva & nearby France), I figured I might as well share them here. So here we go, in no particular order. (more…)
Go out and learn!
September 4, 2005Paul Graham posted a great essay back in January that was originally meant as a High School graduation speech. In his sometimes politically incorrect words (see full text),
Paul invites teenagers to “look for smart people and hard problems”, treat high school “as a day job” and “go out and learn” because “curiosity turns work into play”. All in all a fairly inspiring text that may come in handy when your kid needs some motivating to work his/her way through a defective school system.
Fed up with trojans
August 10, 2005Ok, so a trojan by definition requires some user action to infect its target. In that case the user was a family member so it’s basically our responsibility if we got infected, but it still drives me mad to witness what kind of place the Net has turned into.
New family member
March 30, 2004Richard was born on March 29, 2004 (3.2kg, 50cm) for the greatest pleasure of his parents. After a couple days fighting a slight case of hyperbilirubinemia, he’s healthy and in the process of getting used to his parents and new environment…
Happy New Year!
December 27, 2003It’s that time of year again. 2003 has been kind to us in many respects, considering some of the hectic times we’ve been through in 2002 (nothing to complain too much about, in retrospect). I hope it’s been kind to you, too, and that 2004 will be even better. The coming year will certainly bring its share of changes around here… More on that later. Until then, let me wish you a Happy New Year!
Busy times
December 27, 2003I’m more than ever having a tough time keeping this site even barely alive… I’ll admit my new job as a management accountant at ING Private Banking has kept me fairly busy over the last couple months but it still doesn’t justify not updating this page since April… Yes, I’ve left the IT sector, while still very much relying on its people and infrastructure. It just seemed to make sense career-wise at this point, opening up the horizon in a manner consistant with my background and current aspirations. There’s quite some hacking going on in this area, too, anyway;-)
